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The leader of the Proud Boys extremist group was sentenced to more than five months in jail on Monday for burning a Black Lives Matter banner that was torn down from a historic Black church in downtown Washington and bringing two high-capacity firearm magazines into the nation's capital days shortly before the Jan. 6 riot.
Source: proud boys leader who burned . . .
In the normal course of events, a conviction for third-degree arson would yield a maximum sentence of two years in prison. However, because the flag burned by Martinez was an LGBT symbol, and because Martinez himself said this was his motivation for setting fire to it, prosecutors added a hate crime enhancement to the arson charge.
Iowa law requires that certain offenses, if prosecuted as a hate crime, must be “classified and punished as an offense one degree higher than the underlying offense.” Thus, Martinez’s conviction for third-degree arson was elevated from an aggravated misdemeanor to a Class D felony.
originally posted by: DeathSlayer
I don't own a BLM flag and if I did, I would use it to start a fire in my fireplace.
a reply to: Metallicus
originally posted by: Metallicus
One of my friends mentioned that there is no search engine that is not controlled by the Big Gov / Tech folks and challenged me to use any search engine I wanted and find an image of a BLM Flag being burned. I tried every search engine I could think of and not one image of a BLM Flag burning was found. The only images that came up (regardless of how I worded my search) were of American Flags being burned (often by BLM / Antifa members).
originally posted by: Metallicus
So I had an interesting experience the other day.
originally posted by: MarxistDebunker
Because BML are the initials of the Bureau of Land Management, so even if you don’t acknowledge it, your subconscious mind does know it.