A 30-year-old Manhattan woman was arrested and charged with hate crimes on Tuesday after allegedly setting fire to a Pride flag hanging outside of a popular Prince Street restaurant.
Authorities say Angelina Cando, of Mott Street, was arrested and charged with arson, criminal mischief and reckless endangerment — all of which also come with the hate crime charge — in connection to the burning of a Pride flag outside The Little Prince in SoHo.
The rainbow flag was set on fire at around 1:40 a.m. on Feb. 20 outside the French restaurant near Prince Street at MacDougal Street. When officers arrived, they observed firefighters extinguishing the blaze. There were no reported injuries. A preliminary investigation determined that, at around 1:35 a.m., a woman — now believed to be Cando — exited the front passenger side of car stopped nearby and approached the establishment on foot before lighting the flag on fire. Cando allegedly immediately fled back into the vehicle., read “Make America Gay Again” — a phrase that workers told the news outlet may have set the woman off. Workers also told ABC7 that the flag had been stolen once before.
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