Police say a U.S. Naval Academy graduate has been charged with a hate crime after a tattoo shop told authorities its LGBTQ pride flag had been ripped down and put in the trash
A U.S. Naval Academy graduate ripped down a tattoo shop's LGBTQ pride flag and put it in the trash, Annapolis police said in documents charging him with a hate crime.
Closed-circuit video footage showed a man in a black puffer-style vest walking toward the store at approximately 1 a.m. Friday, police said, before he “forcefully ripped” the flag from above the shop’s awning. According to charging documents, the man was then putting it into a trash can. Police wrote in charging documents that the suspect is a Dallas resident who served in the U.S. Marine Corps and graduated from the academy, The Baltimore SunA woman who worked at a nearby restaurant contacted authorities Saturday morning and told police she had served the man in the video the night before, according to the charging documents.
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