Two people were caught on camera ripping a Pride flag from a home on 190th Street in Fresh Meadows, Queens around 7:23 p.m. on Tuesday.
They had ripped the flag down so aggressively that they damaged a fixture in the process.
The people being sought are believed to be young men, approximately in their late teens, with light complexions and thin builds.outside the historic Stonewall National Monument at Christopher Park in Greenwich Village Thursday morning.Images from the scene showed only transgender Pride flags, which contain five horizontal stripes of three colors - light blue, light pink and white - appear to have been targeted.
"I'm not afraid, but I'm very disappointed in them," said Eric Ao, who was visiting the site Thursday morning. "I'm not afraid. I've been attacked, I've had both racist and homophobic epithets literally yelled at me, so I'm not afraid."showing the suspects who damaged a different set of Pride flags in that earlier incident, which happened Saturday night.
He said this is not the first time the installation has been vandalized, but this recent incident is the most serious since its unveiling.Anyone with information in regard to this incident is asked to call the NYPD's Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS or for Spanish, 1-888-57-PISTA .
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