![]() ![]() These are hateful crimes against a marginalized group protected under state law.” “We take these crimes seriously,” Gandhi said. Amar Gandhi, a Sacramento County Sheriff’s Office spokesman. ![]() That same week, Pride flags were taken down and burned at two other Antelope homes in the area, said Sgt. Her home was most recently targeted on June 7. “But you also don’t want to back down to bullies. “You do not want to risk the safety of your family or your house,” Martinezmoles said. Her family’s Pride flags have been yanked from the small flag installation just outside her front door three times in the past year burned twice in an intimidating manner.īut it hasn’t stopped the Martinezmoles family from placing a symbol or message of inclusiveness and tolerance in front of their home this month during LGBTQ+ Pride Month. So it came with little surprise this year to Martinezmoles when her home became the target of vandalism, which is now being investigated as a hate crime. She said she knows raising a flag to show she and her family are allies to the LGBTQ+ community would unintentionally become a lightning rod to criticism from the intolerant, even in their Sacramento County suburban neighborhood. Johanna Martinezmoles had an ominous feeling someone would try to vandalize her rainbow-colored Pride flag when she first placed it last year outside her Antelope home. ![]()
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