Deputies arrest man after confederate flag burned in Oceano
Source: KSBY TV News
20-year-old Mitchell Davis, a transient from Seattle, was arrested on charges of arson, resisting arrest, giving false identification to a peace officer, and a civil rights violation.
Read more: http://www.ksby.com/story/37853915/deputies-arrest-man-after-confederate-flag-burned-in-oceano
His bail is set at $25k in San Luis Obispo County, California.
safeinOhio
(32,715 posts)Freedom of speech?
LeftInTX
(25,551 posts)Someone poured water on the fire and no harm.
I feel the charges are excessive, but destroying someone else's property is not freedom of speech.
Nitram
(22,877 posts)At least he didn't put one end of the flag into her gas tank before lighting the other end..
csziggy
(34,137 posts)The owner was in a restaurant and her dog was in the cab of the truck. Fortunately the fire was put out with no injury to the dog. Per the article linked in the OP.
That is beyond freedom of speech.
Jake Stern
(3,145 posts)Think he deserves a reward for burning that klanette's flag.
ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)offended them. There were no cops chasing down the vandals then.
BobTheSubgenius
(11,564 posts)It was criminal, and it was dangerous, even if it was a sincere conviction.
wasupaloopa
(4,516 posts)My guess she offends people more than her flag does.
I also think she may have been one of the inlanders that invade us on holiday weekends. The dunes are used for 4 wheeling. It is legal and also dangerous.
keithbvadu2
(36,906 posts)The flag they burn
keithbvadu2
(36,906 posts)The flag they respect
El Mimbreno
(777 posts)Like the Nazi swastika and the Soviet hammer and sickle. And yet they glorify it.
Maxheader
(4,374 posts)attached to his entry fence. Someone took the flag off the
wood flag pole and kicked in his fence. Still has the crossed
guns plaque..'we don't give warning shots" or some such nonsense.
Nitram
(22,877 posts)Too bad he was caught.
hunter
(38,326 posts)... under the other rotting garbage.