Video surveillance footage showed three men attacking trans flags at the historic site during Pride month.
Officers with the New York Police Department arrested a Colorado man on Tuesday in connection with vandalizing multiple Pride flags at the Stonewall National Monument during Pride Month in June.
Patrick Murphy, 25, was charged with a hate crime and criminal mischief for the incident, which occurred just after 3 a.m. on Thursday, June 15, at the Stonewall National Monument in Christopher Park. Police say Murphy and two other men were captured on video removing and destroying several transgender flags that were part of a display featuring 60 different Pride flags hanging on a fence at the monument. Part of the fence was also destroyed in the attack.
NYPD officials told the Patch the two other men seen in the video have not been arrested.
It was the second time in three months that Pride flags were vandalized in Manhattan. In May, a man was arrested and charged with burglary, trespassing, and multiple hate crime counts for an incident at Buceo 95’s eatery on April 15. Police say Fred Innocent, 41, entered the eatery around 1 a.m., defecated on a Pride flag in front of patrons, then used a second Pride flag to wipe clean his backside.
Patch reported Innocent lives in supported housing for New York residents suffering from “serious mental illness” issues.
Christopher Park where the attack occurred is across the street from the location of the famed Stonewall Inn and the site of the 1969 Stonewall Riots. The Stonewall Inn and Christopher Park were designated national monuments in 2016.
Republicans won’t be happy until it’s open season on the streets for them to use their “second amendment rights” to hunt down every queer person they can.
At this point you have to wonder wtf gay Republicans are thinking.
I’ve wondered that for decades.
At this point you have to wonder why they’re so obsessed with drag and gay people.
Nah. They do it because they need a minority group they can point fingers at to distract people from actually scrutinizing their policy.
I still wonder how gay Republicans can exist.
Be fair. They won’t be happy then either.
Sure sure, keep thinking that 3 people removing trans flags means half of the country will start mass killings
Let’s just ignore all the violence, shall we?
It reads more like isolated cases of assholes with probably more than one mental problem killing people than a genocide carried over by half of the country, if I’m being honest.
It’s not something to underestimate, but it’s not as big as you claimed it to be
Sure, it’s always ‘isolated cases.’ It couldn’t possibly be influenced by all the anti-LGBT+ rhetoric in right-wing media.
Sure, the media is constantly saying “Kill as much LGBT people as you can”
You do know that there’s such a thing as subtext, right? And when you start saying things like transwomen using women’s bathrooms are a threat to women, you are suggesting something should be done about it.
And going from “something should be done” to killing people is a huge leap that few people have done, as the cases suggest
Oh, well, as long as it’s “few people.” Let’s not worry about it. Let’s especially not worry about that number increasing because it’s definitely not possible, right?
Do you think Nazi Germany started with killing the Jews on day one?
Sure, sure, keep pretending that you’re not happy this happened.
Bold of you to make assumptions like those
Based on your participation so far in this thread, it’s not like you hadn’t made it perfectly clear.
Sure, correcting extremists automatically means I want a group of people dead
Running interference for a group that wants people to not exist automatically means you’re defending phobic assholes.
“If you’re not with me you’re against me” fucking mentality
Now you’re getting it. Almost like we’re judged by the company we keep or something.
I didn’t say you wanted them dead, just that you’re happy about the vandalism.
But now I’m pretty sure you do, since you’ve volunteered the information.
“volunteered the information” dude, shutting up an exaggerating dude isn’t “being happy about vandalism”
No one was talking about anyone wanting them dead until you got all weirdly and specifically defensive about something no one said.