The NYPD is seeking the public’s help as it searches for a man suspected of defacing two LGBTQ Pride flags.
The New York City Police Department is seeking the public’s help as it searches for a man suspected of defacing two LGBTQ Pride flags.
The unidentified man entered a location in Manhattan’s tony Upper West Side neighborhood and defecated on one rainbow Pride flag and then “took a second Pride flag and wiped his backside with it,” according to a statement released Saturday by the NYPD. The aggravated harassment, which reportedly took place on the morning of April 15, is being investigated by the police department’s Hate Crime Task Force.obtained and published a video
that appears to show the same unidentified man relieving himself on Pride flags located in the dining shed of a restaurant located at the same Upper West Side address where police said the incident took place. NBC News has not independently verified the graphic video.and photo that the department says shows the suspect “within the vicinity of the incident location.”
This latest incident is one of several attacks against LGBTQ establishments, figures and symbols in New York City over the past year.
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