Chief Jon Murad of the Burlington Police Department. “I think Burlingtonians need to respond to an act like this with support and a very vocal position of saying, ‘This is unacceptable to us,’” said Dep. Vaccaro noted the act risked a house fire.īurlington Police are investigating the case as a hate crime.
Vaccaro showed necn and NBC 10 Boston the melted and charred remnants of the couple’s Pride flag, which was turned into a hard mass that was fused to their porch railing. “We were shaking,” Chris Vaccaro of Burlington recalled, describing his reaction when he and his husband learned their flag was torched. Police in Vermont’s largest city are investigating an apparent arson as a hate crime after a gay couple’s rainbow Pride flag was lit on fire on their front porch.
