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.
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?
You really think it’s “increasing”? Ask the 50s
https://news.berkeley.edu/2021/06/25/why-is-anti-trans-violence-on-the-rise-in-america/
https://abcnews.go.com/US/threats-lgbtqia-community-intensifying-department-homeland-security/story?id=99338137
https://abcnews.go.com/US/rise-anti-lgbtq-hate-extremism-captured-new-reports/story?id=100304706
https://time.com/6131444/2021-anti-trans-violence/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2022/06/17/lgbtq-pride-violence/
Maybe check your facts before you say silly things.
I mean, one of your articles say “incidents between 2020(confinement) and 2021 have went from 15 to 61”
I wonder why
You’re pouncing on a single article when I gave you multiple articles including about an assessment from DHS.
I wonder why?
Easy to know why: because you think overwhelming with information will make you automatically right or at least would allow you to shield yourself like now
I think the why is that you couldn’t possibly have read any of those in the time it took you to reply, so you’d rather stick with your erroneous claim that violence against queer people is not on the rise, contrary to the DHS assessment.