Jersey City Mayor Steven Fulop says that he considers the act to be a hate crime. Local and federal law enforcement officials hope to learn who set fire to an LGBT banner that hangs on the front lawn of the Albany Damien Center, a resource center for people living with HIV and. The salon is located at the corner of Grove and Montgomery, just yards away from City Hall. The incident is being investigated by Jersey City officials. and 6 a.m while the family was sleeping was not the first act of vandalism against the Gingrich-Gaylord’s pride symbol. “I came home to find…what I thought was just dirt and maybe the flag flipped up, but it was the flag completely just burnt to a crisp,” David says. Saturday’s flag burning which police say happened between 1 a.m. Hair Room owner Anatalie David says that she was away for the weekend, and discovered that someone burned the flag when she returned to the shop. The burning of the rainbow flag this week will not intimidate the greater community, however. In a hate crime, the targeted group could be categorized by not just race or sexuality, but religion and political beliefs or group as well.
It was placed there by an unknown person following a rally held in Jersey City for the victims of the Pulse Nightclub shooting in Orlando. I believe that burning a nation’s flag is not a hate crime due to the fact that burning a nation’s flag falls under a category that is protected by the First Amendment. JERSEY CITY - The owner of a Jersey City hair salon says that a rainbow “Gay Pride” flag that has hung outside her shop for the past two months was set on fire over the weekend. Flag desecration is the desecration of a flag, violation of flag protocol, or various acts that intentionally destroy, damage, or mutilate a flag in public.