Nebraska Man Arrested On Suspicion Of Burning Neighbors’ Gay Pride Flag

A Nebraska man was arrested for allegedly stealing his neighbors’ gay pride flag and burning it in front of their house on Sunday, Omaha television station WOWT reported.

Cameron Mayfield, 23, allegedly stole the gay pride flag from outside an Omaha home shortly after midnight on Sunday, according to WOWT. He woke the house’s occupants, a married lesbian couple, who reported seeing Mayfield running down the street, waving the burning flag.

Omaha police arrested Mayfield shortly afterward on suspicion of second-degree felony arson and resisting arrest.

The couple filed a protection order against Mayfield on Monday after detectives reported that Mayfield “seemed unstable,” according to the Omaha World-Herald.

Watch a report below via WOWT:

h/t New Civil Rights Movement

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  1. Hey look, Cameron, you made “the stupid, it burns” a real thing!

  2. From the link to the Omaha World-Herald

    He left but returned a few minutes later, and had set the flag on fire. Mayfield, 23, waved the burning flag in front of the house.

    Jeebus on a Triscuit. Steal the flag and then return to the scene of the theft to commit arson.

  3. It will come as a surprise to as many as no people that the defender of traditional values was so drunk he barely remembers all the defending.

  4. Avatar for fess fess says:

    His “reasoning” went something like this, “Hey! this’ll prove to everyone what big (really big!), hairy cajones I got!” He could be just really stupid, or just a really repressed closet case. One way or the other, his little cajones will be out of action for a while, which is especially tough at 23. [sad face-not]

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