Iowa man sentenced to 16 years for burning LGBTQ flag

[eatliftskate]

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.usa...amp/2705226001

This is ridiculous. So people can burn the American flag, but this guy burns an LGBT flag and gets 16 YEARS. Gross injustice

[JoshSP1985]

If there is nothing else to the story that's beyond absurd. People get less for murder.

[SuperChieftain]

Yet people burn, stomp and spit on the American flag and nothing happens.

[Fishman15]

So burning a flag is now a felony hate crime?

[eatliftskate]

If there is nothing else to the story that's beyond absurd. People get less for murder.

“Adolfo Martinez, 30, of Ames last month was found guilty of a hate crime – a class "D" felony – third-degree harassment and reckless use of fire. Police said he stole a pride banner hanging at Ames United Church of Christ and burned it early June 11 outside the Dangerous Curves Gentleman’s Club.

Martinez admitted to police that he lit the banner on fire using lighter fluid and a lighter after stealing it from the church, according to court documents.

Story County Attorney Jessica Reynolds said hate crime charges were added because Martinez is suspected of criminal mischief against someone's property because of "what it represents as far as sexual orientation."


That’s literally it. How could that possibly warrant 16 years?

[Titansfan08]

[cromofo]

16 years for arson ie burning a flag?

That's ****ed

[sfgiants13]

I believe he's also a repeat offender. Not that it justifies 16 years but they probably used that to add a bunch of time.

[DrumsNotDead]

Because that will teach him to like gay people...

[Seatard]

LOL I saw this story and knew miscers would be rustled AF by it.


"Court records list him as a habitual offender, allowing him to be sentenced to a longer prison term."


Apparently they are tough on crime in Iowa. Good for them.

[monty097]

Lol what an absolute fuking joke this world is becoming.

People said Trump winning was the beginning of the world ending up like the movie Idiocracy, I think that's going to happen when Trump's presidency is up and these fuking lunatics are in charge again.

Hopefully another Republican gets voted in after Trump.

[Bushmaster]

That’s literally it. How could that possibly warrant 16 years?

For the love of fuking god this... It was just this morning I read an article about a woman who blew past a stopped school bus and killed four small children - all siblings. An entire family destroyed, and she only got four years. Strong, strong WTF.

I guess LBTGBBQWTF's really are serious business these days.

[wake_me]

you could murder a whole family here in Canada and do less time than that

[Bushmaster]

LOL I saw this story and knew miscers would be rustled AF by it.


"Court records list him as a habitual offender, allowing him to be sentenced to a longer prison term."


Apparently they are tough on crime in Iowa. Good for them.

Dude... he burned a flag. A fuking piece of cloth...

It's called protected free speech whenever an American flag is burned.

[Tamorlane]

just a taste of what's coming to America

16 reasons to be excited about the midterm Rainbow Wave
https://www.cnn.com/2018/11/07/opini...ntl/index.html

[Seatard]

Dude... he burned a flag. A fuking piece of cloth...

It's called protected free speech whenever an American flag is burned.

I understand.

I don't know the extent of his criminal past but apparently this guy isn't learning his lesson.

[keyboardworkout]

He stole the flag he burned. That is the problem.

If he would have purchased a rainbow flag and burned it, there would have been no crime (unless they tried the reckless use of fire thing).

[eatliftskate]

He stole the flag he burned. That is the problem.

If he would have purchased a rainbow flag and burned it, there would have been no crime (unless they tried the reckless use of fire thing).

“Martinez was sentenced Wednesday to 15 years for the hate crime of arson, as well as a year for the reckless use of explosives or fire, and 30 days for harassment. “

Wrong.

[Bushmaster]

He stole the flag he burned. That is the problem..

16 years... Let that sink it. 16 years.

And this "habitual offender" thing is nothing but desperation and cope.. Even if he stole a **** flag every day of the year it wouldn't warrant 16 fuking years. Murderers don't even get that much.

[keyboardworkout]

“Martinez was sentenced Wednesday to 15 years for the hate crime of arson, as well as a year for the reckless use of explosives or fire, and 30 days for harassment. “

Wrong.

If he used his own flag, there would be no hate crime of arson.

[Tamorlane]

“Martinez was sentenced Wednesday to 15 years for the hate crime of arson, as well as a year for the reckless use of explosives or fire, and 30 days for harassment. “

Wrong.

Keep reading. They're sending a message to anyone who thinks about committing hate crimes in their county in the future. Should people be more lenient on crime? Is this the new ideology of the alt-right? Soft on foreign policy, the Chinese, corporate corruption, and now crime?

[ClivesTriceps]

This is a taste of liberal ran government and justice right here.. So f*cked

[Seatard]

“Martinez was sentenced Wednesday to 15 years for the hate crime of arson, as well as a year for the reckless use of explosives or fire, and 30 days for harassment. “

Wrong.

Obviously, different articles say differently.

"He faced a maximum of five years in prison for the hate crime and arson charge and a maximum of a year and month for the other two charges, according to Iowa sentencing guidelines. Court records list him as a habitual offender, allowing him to be sentenced to a longer prison term."

https://www.desmoinesregister.com/st...re/2697139001/

This guy is the type of moron who finds himself in prison for doing stupid chit. I don't understand the sympathy.

[JRMoore82]

For the love of fuking god this... It was just this morning I read an article about a woman who blew past a stopped school bus and killed four small children - all siblings. An entire family destroyed, and she only got four years. Strong, strong WTF.

I guess LBTGBBQWTF's really are serious business these days.

Gay mafia is real

[ImpressiveGainz]

Keep reading. They're sending a message to anyone who thinks about committing hate crimes in their county in the future. Should people be more lenient on crime? Is this the new ideology of the alt-right? Soft on foreign policy, the Chinese, corporate corruption, and now crime?

There's this thing we have here called freedom of speech. "Hate speech" is just some bull**** term Canadians invented.

[jlick]

i know someone who got less time for shooting someone in the back (fatally)


time to hit the ol' reset button planet earth

my girlfriend's cousin got ran over (on purpose...drove over her once, then threw the car in reverse and drove over her again, killing her) by a drunk driver who then fled the scene. he got sentenced to 2 years in prison and was released after a year and half.

[Bushmaster]

If he used his own flag, there would be no hate crime of arson.

Dude... 16 years for a 100% victimless fuking crime.

[Seatard]

And this "habitual offender" thing is nothing but desperation and cope..

When it comes to career criminals, let's just let bygones be bygones...

[Tamorlane]

There's this thing we have here called freedom of speech. "Hate speech" is just some bull**** term Canadians invented.

Yea we sent the Westboro Baptists back home at the border when they tried to protest our soldiers funerals.

You're right America has free speech, which is why flag desecration is allowed on a federal level mandated by the Supreme Court but is banned in several red states. So much for free speech you pretend to care so much about when it suits you.

[keyboardworkout]

Dude... 16 years for a 100% victimless fuking crime.

I understand it is ridiculous but he did commit the crimes of theft and arson.

I am sure someone would get only a slap on the wrist if the stole a Trump sign out of my yard and set it on fire.