Only transgender Pride flags, which contain five horizontal stripes of three colors - light blue, light pink and white - appeared to have been targeted.
More Pride flags were discovered broken and torn down outside the historic Stonewall National Monument at Christopher Park in Greenwich Village Thursday morning.Images from the scene showed only transgender Pride flags, which contain five horizontal stripes of three colors - light blue, light pink and white - appear to have been targeted.The incident comes less than a week after a similar case of vandalism at the same location.The NYPD's Hate Crimes Task Force is investigating.
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