He’s due back in court July 31, when he may learn if a grand jury has indicted him. The rainbow flags were destroyed roughly 48 hours after being raised outside of the Menapia. Manhattan Criminal Court Judge Laurie Peterson ordered Singleton set free with no bail late Wednesday, despite prosecutors’ request that he be held on a $25,000 bond. Police are investigating after Pride flags were lowered and burned on Sunday night in Waterford City. NYPD Chief Dermot Shea, meanwhile, thanked hate crime investigators and civilian tipsters - including some who reached out to - for clinching the collar. “He stated in substance that he was responsible for burning the flags, and that his actions were motivated by bias and animus against the LGBT community,” the criminal complaint against Singleton says. Adolfo Martinez, 30, was found guilty of a. Once in custody, Singleton told an NYPD Bias Incident Investigations detective that it was him. An Iowa man was sentenced to serve 16 years behind bars after he tore down a rainbow flag symbolizing gay pride from the front of a church and burned it.
Singleton ‘fessed up to investigators that he twice targeted the Seventh Avenue gay bar - first on May 31, when he lit up two LGBT flags hanging on a pole outside, and then again July 8, when he set fire to another flag hanging in the same spot. Cops release footage of man torching Harlem gay pride flagĪrrested Tuesday in the caught-on-video predawn fires, Tyresse Singleton, 20, now must face felony charges of arson and criminal mischief as a hate crime.
