And I get that political correctness requires the authorities to treat certain forms of vandalism as extra heinous. I get that we live in overly-sensitive times where every single action requires being ramped up to an earth-shattering level of tragedy. I’m sorry, but a few torched flags are not equal to someone taking a brick to the face. Years ago, a gay friend of mine was a victim of gay-bashing. But elevating it to a hate crime takes away from actual hate crimes. Look, arrest the idiot and throw the book at him. To be more specific, the arrest was announced by the NYC Police Hate Crimes Task Force’s Twitter page.ĪRRESTED!! Thank you to calls from the community to and the work of the Detectives in Hate Crime Task Force, this individual has been arrested and charged for both incidents of flag burning at #stophate /mGZ5hwtzio The New York City Police Department broke the news on Twitter that they had arrested Singleton for burning three gay pride flags flown outside of the Alibi Lounge, a gay bar in Harlem.
