Zach and Micala Gingrich-Gaylord received national attention in September when their gay pride flag was “just melted down into a plastic mess”. Rosemark is also unsurprisingly facing a drug possession charge. It’s unclear what led up to the interaction, and Rosemark was sentenced to a day in jail for disorderly conduct. 28 for threatening to kill a man who was with his family, according to a criminal complaint. Rosemark was arrested by Des Moines police on Oct. 17, he was cited for public intoxication in West Des Moines and was sentenced to three days in jail. Some of Daniel Jonathon Rosemark’s mugshots, easily found onlineĬourt records show that Rosemark has recently had multiple interactions with metro police. Rosemark “has been charged with fifth-degree criminal mischief in violation of individual rights - hate crime, a serious misdemeanor, and reckless use of fire or explosive, an aggravated misdemeanor,” according to the Des Moines Register about a week ago. But those who burn the American flag are covered by the First Amendment to the Constitution, and rightfully so.Īlso in Iowa, Daniel Jonathon Rosemark from Des Moines is a homeless man with a long arrest record who reportedly burned the Blazing Saddle bar’s gay pride flag. His hatred is obvious, just as is the hatred for America that many display when they burn the American flag. Martinez was not at all apologetic, and he said he would do it again. If everything else was equal, and Martinez burned an American flag hanging at a church instead of a pride flag, he would have received different charges and very likely a lesser sentence.
Johnson, who received a $225,000 settlement from the city of Cleveland in June after he successfully argued that police officers violated his First Amendment rights by using fire extinguishers to put out an American flag he was burning outside the Republican National Convention in 2016 in protest of “American imperialism and inequality”.Įarlier this month, Adolfo Martinez was convicted of a hate crime in Ames, Iowa for “tearing down and burning a Pride flag that was hanging at a local church.” While Martinez was properly charged and convicted of “third-degree harassment, reckless use of fire, and being a habitual offender,” the hate crime enhancement for burning a flag is dangerous. In fact, the burning of an American flag may even be quite lucrative, as in the case of Revolutionary Communist Party member Gregory L.
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While burning a gay pride flag is a hate crime, burning an American flag is free speech. Individuals across America are being charged – and convicted – with hate crimes for burning the rainbow flag, which represents gay pride.