After spending 16 years in prison, he will have to explain a hate crime charge to any prospective employers. WesternJournal report: Despite burning multiple flags using fire, it seems these protesters didn’t even get a slap on the wrist.įor Martinez, however, his actions will haunt him for the rest of his life. Leftists burns American flags on the pedestrian mall along Clinton Street in Iowa City, Iowa, on Thursday, Jan. “I see social injustice from Native American genocide to African-American slavery to failing to recognize women as citizens until the 20th century.”Ī photo of the 2017 flag burning can be seen below. “When I see the flag, I see racial injustice,” one protester said.
The act was considered a hate crime because the flag represents a sexual orientation.ĭisturbingly, the same charges don’t seem to apply to those who burn the red, white and blue flag of the United States.Īs the Iowa City Press-Citizen reported in 2017, leftist protesters there were able to burn multiple American flags to protest social justice causes while insulting the very country that guaranteed them the freedom to do so without being prosecuted. Martinez was arrested in June after taking the rainbow flag from the United Church of Christ in Ames.
