Cenk Uygur
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Police Arrest Facebook Flag Burner, Ignore Death Threats Against Him
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July 7, 2016
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8:03Now PlayingAn Illinois man was arrested after posting pictures of himself burning the American flag to Facebook. Apparently nobody told these officers that the Supreme Court has ruled this protected free speech. Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian, hosts of The Young Turks, break it down. Tell us what you think in the comment section below.
"A young man who wasn’t feeling very patriotic this 4th of July weekend decided to burn an American flag and tell the world about it on Facebook — only to get arrested the next day after neighbors complained.
Bryton Mellott, 22, of Urbana, Illinois, was taken into custody Monday after police received calls about his Facebook posts, which included a picture of him setting the Stars and Stripes on fire and a message explaining that he was “not proud to be an American.”
“In this moment, being proud of my country is to ignore the atrocities committed against people of color, people living in poverty, people who identify as women, and against my own queer community on a daily basis,” Mellott wrote in a Facebook post that appears to have since been taken down.”*
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