If you are planning to use a flag as a toilet paper substitute, make sure it is an American flag and not a rainbow flag.
Similar issues arose with Soviet-era outhouses that used newspapers instead of toilet paper. People who failed to remove photos of Stalin from the stack faced a possible one-way trip to the gulags.
Okay, letās instead charge for public indecency, vandalism, andā¦littering? 
The hate crime makes ācriminal mischief in the fourth degreeā into a felony instead of a misdemeanor.
Desecrating an American flag is protected speech.
On the other hand, desecrating a pride flag is a hate crime since it targets based on āsexual orientation of a personā.
I agree.
Should have likewise been done for the BLM protesters who did the same on cop cars. The videos are out there.
Clearly taking some one elseās flag is illegal.
On the other hand, the perpetrator has promise as an āartistā who would have received government funding a couple of decades ago.
Could have went with ādonāt use someone elseās flag as a toilet paper substituteā for basic advice.
Yes, damaging someone elseās property is generally illegal and not a good idea.
On the other hand, months of arson and destruction of businesses, homes, and churches resulted in very few felony convictions, but burning a pride flag resulted in a 15-year sentence.
Can you point to any case from the 2020 riots were a property crime resulted in a similar sentence?
Burning down a church is no big deal. Burning the wrong flag is.
If heād chosen to do that to the trans flag, heād likely be facing life without parole.
wave after wave of whataboutism.
That guy got into an argument at a bar, stole a churches flag, went back to the bar and burned it outside, and threatened to burn the bar down. But what about the looters! If youāre going to commit crimes try to blend in with a group?
