Deputies arrest man after confederate flag burned in Oceano

[KWR65]

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

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His bail is set at $25k in San Luis Obispo County, California.

[safeinOhio]

1. Might that fall under

Freedom of speech?

[LeftInTX]

2. The flag was attached to someone's truck with a dog in it.

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]

12. I thank him for destroying someone's blatantly racist speech.

At least he didn't put one end of the flag into her gas tank before lighting the other end..

[csziggy]

4. No - he set fire to a flag on someone else's truck

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. Wonder if I can put some money on his book

Think he deserves a reward for burning that klanette's flag.

[ProudLib72]

5. Not as bad as what the RWNJs did to my truck when my anti-W bumper stickers

offended them. There were no cops chasing down the vandals then.

[BobTheSubgenius]

6. My heart is with M Davis, but logic dictates differently.

It was criminal, and it was dangerous, even if it was a sincere conviction.

[wasupaloopa]

7. I live near there. I have never seen a rebel flag any time weve been there.

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]

8. The flag they burn

The flag they burn

[keithbvadu2]

9. The flag they respect

The flag they respect

[El Mimbreno]

13. A flag of a failed system...

Like the Nazi swastika and the Soviet hammer and sickle. And yet they glorify it.

[Maxheader]

10. Neighbor had a union jack flag

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]

11. I would have been tempted to do the same thing.

Too bad he was caught.

[hunter]

14. Next time, quietly remove flags and deposit in nearby dumpster...

... under the other rotting garbage.