The incidents, all of which happened last week, were the latest in a continuing spike in reported hate crimes in New. The victims, Ariann Anderson and Jessica Meadows-Anderson (above), said Mayfield’s actions sent an obvious message. In Manhattan, two rainbow pride flags were set on fire outside of a gay bar. Mayfield faces up to two years in prison or five years of probation at sentencing in August.
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He said he thought the flag was just a spring ornament, according to .įortunately, the judge didn’t buy it, convicting Mayfield of a felony hate crime arson charge. It’s potentially a hate crime, so it sickens me.
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However, in court this week, Mayfield claimed the March 1, 2015 incident wasn’t a hate crime, saying he didn’t realize it was a gay Pride flag and that he didn’t know the couple was gay. Two high school students in Utah have been suspended from football team for Pride flag burning incident. An Omaha man accused of burning his neighbors gay pride flag last month will stand trial for arson aggravated by a hate crime. He drenched the flag, set it on fire, and walked back to the couple’s home, where he waved the burning flag in the street.
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Then, he hopped the couple’s front fence, yanked down the flag and returned to his house nearby, where he retrieved a gas can out of the garage. Before stealing a Gay Pride flag from a lesbian couple’s home in Omaha, Nebraska, setting it on fire and waving it in the street, Cameron Mayfield (right) walked passed several houses with other flags. The arrest came just a day after New York Governor Andrew Cuomo said he asked state authorities to open a hate crime investigation over the incident outside of Alibi Lounge, the only gay bar in.