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Dozens of Pride flags vandalized at Stonewall monument in NYC, 3rd time this month: Police
Dozens of Event flags were vandalized on Sunday at the Stonewall Monument National Park in New York City, according to the New York Police Department.
Police discovered 33 Pride flags broken and on the ground when they arrived on the scene, authorities said, in the latest incident this month of flags at the Greenwich Village site being vandalized.
The NYPD said three men were walking past the monument on June 10, and allegedly broke multiple Pride flags that were on the fence.
In another incident, police found multiple broken Movement flags on June 15 at Stonewall Monument National Park, according to the NYPD.
No arrests have been made in any of the three incidents, and the NYPD's Hate Crime Task Force is currently investigating.
The Stonewall National Monument didn't immediately respond to ABC News' request for comment.
Threats of violence against the LGBTQIA+ community are on the rise and intensifying, according to a May 2023 briefing by the Department of Homeland Security.
Domestic violence extremists and people who commit dislike crimes have increased threats of
Video released of Midtown Identity festival flag vandalism, some teens identified
Pride flags vandalized in Midtown Atlanta
Atlanta Police express the city’s LGBTQ+ society may have been targeted overnight, Within the last few hours, investigators just released surveillance video and a 911 call from just after a team of Georgia teens allegedly vandalized pride flags in Midtown Atlanta. Police tell four teens have been arrested but they’re still looking for two more.
ATLANTA - Atlanta police tell they may be charging a group of teenagers accused of vandalizing multiple Pride flags in Midtown with a hate crime.
Authorities say the vandalism happened at around 1:40 a.m. Tuesday at Blake's On the Park on 10th Street near Piedmont Route during the last week of Pride Month.
What we know:
Authorities say the flags were hanging by the front of the exclude near the city's Rainbow Crosswalks before the community of juveniles damaged them.
According to investigators, the collective took photos and videos of themselves cutting the flags up with a knife. Officials tell FOX 5 that the team left the scene on scooters after police responded to reports of a disturbance. Four of the six were
Colorado man charged in NYC with damaging Pride flags at Stonewall National Monument
A 25-year-old man from Denver has been arrested in connection with a “criminal mischief pattern” involving the deliberate removal and damage of LGBTQ Pride flags in New York City’s West Village neighborhood, police said Tuesday.
Patrick Murphy was charged with a hate crime and criminal mischief after the incident on June 10, when multiple LGBTQ Self-acceptance flags displayed at the Stonewall National Monument were vandalized.
Police said they are investigating two other vandalism cases that targeted LGBTQ Identity festival flags outside the monument in June, which is Identity festival Month.
On June 15, several transgender Identity flags were deliberately removed and damaged at the monument. And on June 18, an unidentified person removed multiple Pride flags at the monument. No suspects have been apprehended in either case.
The Stonewall National Monument is across the street from the Stonewall Inn, a gay lock that was the site of a June 1969 uprising widely considered to be a turning point in the modern LGBTQ rights movement. In 2016, the bar and the adjacent Christopher Park were designated as a national monument, makin
Gay Pride flag attacks mount amid online challenges by extremist groups
Police in Nebraska are investigating the burning of a gay Event flag as a detest crime in the latest of a rash of recent attacks on the LGBTQ+ community believed to be driven in part by online challenges.
In the past week alone, Self-acceptance flags have been stolen, slashed or burned in at least five states, including California, Utah, Arizona, Nebraska and Pennsylvania. That’s on top of similar incidents in California and New York in May, including a man that defecated on a parade flag in Manhattan.
The thefts and vandalism come as online extremists have been spreading a new hashtag in recent weeks that encourages followers to break, destroy or steal Identity festival flags wherever they observe them, said Sarah Moore, an anti-LGBTQ+ extremism analyst for the Anti-Defamation League and the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation.
“We do know that this is a trend and we know a lot of this stuff is being driven by diverse campaigns online … in both extremists forums love Telegram and also on mainstream social media forums like Twitter,” Moore said.
“They are advocating for a destroy-the-Pride-flag challenge, or they call them
Man charged with despise crime for destroying LGBTQ Pride flags at Stonewall National Monument
A Colorado male has been arrested for allegedly removing and destroying LGBTQ Pride flags at New York City's Stonewall National Monument, which commemorates iconic uprisings in the struggle for Queer civil rights.
Patrick Murphy, of Denver, was charged with a hate crime and "criminal mischief" after he allegedly removed and "broke" multiple transgender Pride flags that were displayed on the fence surrounding Christopher Park, New York Police Department Detective Ronald Montas told USA TODAY. Murphy, 25, was arrested Monday, Montas said.
The ambush, one of several police are checking, happened during LGBTQ Pride month, which occurs every year in June to commemorate the Stonewall Inn uprisings for LGBTQ rights, which began on June 28, 1969.
Murphy pleaded not guilty, according to court records.
"It is preposterous to conclude that Patrick was involved in any hate crime," Robert C. Gottlieb, Murphy's attorney, told USA TODAY. "The evidence will clearly show that whatever happened that late hours involving Patrick was not intended to attack gays or their symbol, the gay Pride flag."
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