Baltimore police are investigating a hate crime after a man reportedly tried to rip off a pride flag from a church in Federal Hill.
Officers were called to the church around 4 p.m. on Monday to investigate a destruction-of-property report.
Someone saw an unknown man climbing the outside wall of the church, according to authorities. That man was hanging from the pride flag in an attempt to rip it from the wall.
A picture shows the flag torn down the middle, still hanging from the church.
The remains of a ripped LGBT flag still hang outside of the Light Street Presbyterian Church in Federal Hill on Tuesday night.
A witness to the crime told WJZ that the person responsible used the flag to climb to the top and then pulled out a knife to slice it in half before hopping into a getaway car.
“Halfway down the block, I see a guy on a potted plant and he starts climbing up the flag,” neighborhood resident and witness Ben Luster told WJZ.
The man made multiple attempts to climb and eventually reached the top of the flag. That’s when he pulled out a knife and ripped in half, Luster said.
“I asked him what he was doing and he mentioned the flag in front of the church is an abomination,” he said. “So, he started ripping it.”
The man responded by saying “he was doing the lord’s work,” Luster said.
Pastor Tim Hughes Williams said the 10-foot flag was a symbol of inclusion.
“I think it’s ironic that people who are coming from a position of faith are acting with so much hostility and hatred,” he said.
Williams said the church—with the support of the community—is raising funds to buy a new flag. The church has been a safe space for LGTBQ members for nearly three decades.
“To me, the violence against the flag . . . reinforces how important it is that there are places like this,” he said.
❖ All of them in just a week!? ➡ Conspiracy against Women and Children?
🚗 Five people, ages 12 to 19, were killed in Batesville, Mississippi, after their car hit a bridge and fell into a creek Tuesday night, 22 mar 2023.
The crash happened on a rural road in Batesville just before 10 p.m. Tuesday. The Panola County Sheriff’s Office said there were no other vehicles involved in the crash. Deputies have not said what might have precipitated the crash or who was driving, but they said all the victims were related.
In a statement posted to social media, the South Panola School District said all five of the people killed were current or former students.
“South Panola School District is heartbroken and saddened by the tragic passing of five of our current and former students. Our thoughts and prayers are with the families, friends, faculty and staff, and classmates,” the statement reads.
🛑 Apocalypse: Powerful Tornadoes Strike Mississippi + Alabama Leaving at Least 26 Dead
🚗 Drivers identified after Beltway crash leaves 6 dead in Woodlawn Wednesday 22 mar 2023
Maryland State Police have identified two drivers involved in the fatal crash that killed six people Wednesday. Police identified the driver of the Acura involved in the crash as Lisa Adrienna Lea, 54, of Randallstown. She was taken Shock Trauma. Police did not have an update on her condition. Police said the second vehicle involved in the crash was a Volkswagen. The driver was identified as Melachi Brown, 20, of Windsor Mill. Brown stopped his vehicle north of the scene on I-695 when it became disabled. He was not injured, according to police.
👉 SODOM and EGYPT 👈
✞ MARY Land – The CHILD of Our Holy Mother MARY, Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ was crucified in JERUSALEM
❖❖❖[Revelation 11:8]❖❖❖
“And their dead bodies shall lie in the street of the great city, which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where also our Lord was crucified.”
❖ Apostle St. Paul summed up the problem with Jerusalem in his epistle to the church of Galatia:
“For it is written, that Abraham had two sons, the one by a bondmaid, the other by a freewoman. But he who was of the bondwoman was born after the flesh; but he of the freewoman was by promise. Which things are an allegory: for these are the two covenants; the one from the mount Sinai, which gendereth to bondage, which is Agar. For this Agar is mount Sinai in Arabia, and answereth to Jerusalem which now is, and is in bondage with her children. But Jerusalem which is above is free, which is the mother of us all,” (Galatians 4:22-26).
It is why Jerusalem on earth is a city of bondage that corresponds to pagan Egypt and Sodom.
🛑 Nashville Christian School Shooting Leaves 3 Children, 3 Adults Dead | Shooter Confirmed to be Transgender
💭 Five children were killed in an unimaginable tragedy in Westchester County early Sunday 20 mar 2023.
The children were all from the same family – aged 8 to 17 – are killed in a fiery crash after their SUV driven by 16-year-old without a license smashed into a tree
The children were all siblings and cousins. A nine-year-old boy who was in the trunk survived the crash, according to police
The car was driven by 16-year-old Malik Smith who veered off the road and struck a tree which caused the car to burst into flames
Posted by addisethiopia / አዲስ ኢትዮጵያ on November 10, 2022
💭 “First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a socialist. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a trade unionist. Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—because I was not a Jew. Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.”—Martin Niemöller
💭 ‘Bolshevist’ Congressman Jamie Raskin Calls to Destroy ‘Orthodox Christian’ Russia by Jihad
💭 Anti-Orthodox Conspiracy: NATO ‘Ready to Act’ in KOSOVO if Tensions with SERBIA Escalate
💭 Tucker Carlson accuses America of declaring “a jihad” on Russia because it’s “an orthodox Christian country with traditional values”
Carlson: “Russia is an orthodox Christian country with traditional social values and for that reason, it must be destroyed, no matter what the cost to us. So this is not a conventional war, this is a jihad”
TUCKER CARLSON (HOST): The Biden administration is doubling down on the self-destructive mistakes that are destroying the European Union. The White House banned Russian oil, natural gas and coal. It was our moral duty. And then at the same time, the Biden administration crushed domestic oil production here by canceling oil and gas leases. And then, as if that wasn’t enough, the Biden administration sold a piece of our Strategic Petroleum Reserve–maybe this country’s important resource–to China. None of this hurt Putin in any way. All of it impoverishes the United States.
So what could possibly be the justification for doing that? We’ve wondered. Anyone who’s paying attention has had to have wondered that. Well this week, Congressman Jamie Raskin of Maryland–of Bethesda–answered that question. Russia is an orthodox Christian country with traditional social values and for that reason, it must be destroyed, no matter what the cost to us. So this is not a conventional war, this is a jihad.
💭 Anti-Orthodox Conspiracy: NATO ‘Ready to Act’ in KOSOVO if Tensions with SERBIA Escalate