American flag burned at La Verne home

A resident in Laverne woke up to find his American flag burned to the ground and is sounding the alarm to his neighbors. Shelby Nelson reports for KTLA 5 News at 6, Nov. 6, 2023. Details: ktla.com
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[@Gloria-ro4vn]

We have laws in the USA. it's a CRIME to trespass on someone's land, destroy their property, and commit ARSON, yes he started a fire, he can be charged for Arson. FYI, "ignorance of the law is no excuse, you can still be arrested and tried and serve time in prison."

[@bobsagits]

😮wow the KZbin lawyer has graced KTLA'S comment section 😮

[@Gloria-ro4vn]

@@bobsagits Retired PD, Administrative Assistant to Chief of Police, prior to that 11 years in Investigation Bureau.

[@xulinzhang498]

@@Gloria-ro4vn Respect 🎉 Thank you for serving the community

[@Robert-eg2oy]

Not in California, in California anything goes.

[@armageddonready4071]

Unless your a cop, then you can break laws you don’t know about. They do it all the time.

[@whatmodern]

This is the most La Verne story I've ever heard.

[@sassysunflower]

Exactly! The fact that this is major news is hilarious to me. People being murdered in other cities… but a flag burned in La Verne omg!? 😳🤣

[@nachc6459]

@@sassysunflowerthat’s a good thing 😂😂 you don’t want a garbage city

[@glitter_fart]

Imagine thinking trying to set someones house on fire because of their flag is a laughing matter. @@sassysunflower

[@Anthony-to7cp]

​@@sassysunflowerLook at the World , everyone says I'm surprised.

[@bobsagits]

​@@glitter_fartbecause they set the flag on fire you're assuming they planned on light the house on fire 😂😂😂😂

[@jesseleblanc1199]

One thing is sure whoever did it is a coward.....

[@Orlando-s8x]

I know. Just like the cowards that get on KZbin and make all the racist comments 😮

[@jesseleblanc1199]

Sometimes folks confuse the truth with racism......if they don't say something directly about a person's color.....and are stating a fa t about numbers and odds .....that will be truth .....just the fact that you bring this up puts you in question

[@jesseleblanc1199]

Sometimes folks confuse the truth with racism......if they don't say something directly about a person's color.....and are stating a fa t about numbers and odds .....that will be truth .....just the fact that you bring this up puts you in question

[@11_AlwaysLate_11]

I'm a proud Salvadoran and I think this was sacrilegious and disrespectful to do in a country where I've been living in since age two.

[@SaveAmerica69]

It is still a crap state

[@daphnelu7]

They disrespect the flag, they can leave the country

[@jonmacdonald5345]

They will never leave no welfare in other countries.....

[@thedefiantscorpion1476]

Like it or not they have a right under the freedom of speech. The last thing any america needs is for government or any organization to pick and choose what speech we can have. If the line is disrespect the flag you leave the country then line will be expanded to anything under the sun that protects people in power. Right now not theorical it is illegal to boycott products from israel. Long before the attack in october it was passed. So it has been done before next time it might be you can't misgender someone or you can't boycott a company like walmart.

[@drumtwo4seven]

IF A PERSON DOESN'T LIKE AMERICA THEN LEAVE

[@kcoughlan123]

Are you gonna pay my relocation fees? 😂🎉

[@that.ll_do_pig]

This act is vile and they should face consequences. That said, if you think Americans have to blindly love/like America or leave... you aren't very American at all.

[@Gs-kl6rd]

@@kcoughlan123how much?

[@bobsagits]

​@@Gs-kl6rd$18k pull up

[@fremontpathfinder8463]

That's not how "freedom" works. It's not that easy to get residency in other countries but America is far from the greatest country.

[@madlyn792]

Should be illegal to burn American flag. You sure can't burn any other flag or you'll go straight to jail. We live in an upside down world these days.

[@shondrawhite9317]

I can burn any flag I would like on my property. It's my 1st amendment right. Any flag I choose. My free speech.

[@LostintheHate]

Someone walking around with a flashlight and mask on my property is a one way ticket to hell

[@Theonetruegod-hw2ei]

😂🤣🤦‍♂️🤷‍♂️🖕🤡 sure tuff guy

[@YOUR_MOTHER_WENT_TO_COLLEGE]

This day and age I seriously don't know how people don't have any type of security systems on their property.

[@Gs-kl6rd]

They should get kicked out of America

[@THEhorihito]

That's not how America works.

[@bobsagits]

​@@THEhorihitothey don't understand that , that's why the say "Then Leave .. ' all the time.

[@Mikemikeswehomenow]

Why! Don't you have any respect for the country that you live in regardless of what your background is in regardless of what your grievances are do not disrespect our flag

[@Lousasshol]

Good man , too many people want to come here and reap benefits and not have pride for the country they are in

[@joedirt7553]

Leave if you hate America.

[@bobsagits]

You paying my reaction fee? 😂

[@angelsdevils2956]

Do you hate the people that hate America maybe you leave?

[@annarcher5198]

I fly my flag high and proud, and will always my family is full of military and im proud of the real America....if you dont like it then as other have posted LEAVE

[@JL-rd5gn]

The higher you fly it, the less chance it will be burned. This guy’s flag was too low

[@whoami7721]

Someone who will never amount to anything did this. They're taking out their misery and frustration on a flag because this country represents things they resent: prosperity and freedom. This person is probably living with Mom, unemployed and angry.

[@sensorycircuits1338]

Exactly, who said Americans have the right to protest anyway? Nobody, that's who.

[@fremontpathfinder8463]

Why is the flag associated with the military and MAGA. So you think there is a "real American" and the rest of us are? What? Not real Americans? No. we can stay and fight for the America we want. I will never fly the US flag because it stands for MAGA, insurrection, and racism.

[@THEhorihito]

Every time I read someone say "if you don't like it leave" I just picture a mean 6 year old girl kicking her cousins out of her room because they made fun of her favorite blanket.

[@siennad587]

If you don’t like the American flag, adios. Hundreds of other countries!

[@tigrehermano]

maybe we need to stop invading the other countries so it doesn't happen

[@bobsagits]

Pay me relocating fees I'll happily leave this trash state and country 😂

[@josephpenate6408]

This is not okay. Place a bigger flag up. Salute to you.

[@YOUR_MOTHER_WENT_TO_COLLEGE]

I hope 1 or more neighbors has some sort of security footage and are able to get some sort of real description of that P.O.S!

[@davidwright873]

What we need is the reinstatement of the draft.....which is just around the corner young people.

[@pesetamaya3509]

You're correct as well, brother. I think we all need to start showing our American Pride. So that once again America could become greater. And more powerful than it was before. Our flag is up 24,7 And we believe in the cold God country. If our leaders try to take that away from us. May God help us.F7345,

[@edyramirez9683]

Someone get this man a flag !

[@chipsjuicemoney5978]

Whats wrong with that?

[@thefox47545]

1st amendment wise, nothing. Trespassing to commit arson and damaging other people's property, BIG DEAL!

[@ihatesjws669]

If you hate America why are you still here?

[@chipsjuicemoney5978]

black people were not invited here. We didn't come here on vacation. In case you were wondering@@ihatesjws669

[@Gloria-ro4vn]

It's a CRIME to trespass on private property and destroy their property. So, where are you from, obviously not from the USA even a 5 year old knows it's a Crime.

[@martinocelotl8326]

Flag is made of synthetics, which are very toxic to burn --- IT'S BAD FOR THE ECOSYSTEMTO BURN PLASTICS!

[@johnwaters3537]

Who doesn't have home cameras now a days?😮

[@Mac-po1sr]

People who live in La Verne. They just got internet last year

[@integr8shun]

Dude burned it himself for attention

[@THEhorihito]

That's what my gut says too. The odds of one of his family members in the neighborhood just happening to see a creeper... but nobody else seems to have seen them... gotta be ridonkulous. And lots of other houses with flags. Why would HIS house be targeted? Also... "after 9/11, I was the first to put up a flag" kinda tipped his hand.

[@Jay-v4q]

How is this news lol

[@THEhorihito]

Oh it's not.

[@angelsdevils2956]

Laverne surly was angry 😂

[@rockets4kids]

1:12 If you have so little respect for the flag so as not to take down at sunset you don't have much room to complain here.

[@mrtruth1748]

This is assault, these tools are literally playing with fire.

[@NotWishingEdits]

So people are dying in this world and the news decides to say something about this? 😂😂

[@drjekelmrhyde]

Sounds like bs. Dude must had the cheapest flea market flag ever. Someone would need a ladder and some kind of flammable liquid to burn it that good.

[@nannerz1994]

Yeah that's kind of weird but it's their first amendment right so

[@GregGregory-b8o]

What are you talking about? You can't burn someone else's property.

[@nannerz1994]

​@@GregGregory-b8ookay I missed the part where it was someone else's flag but if it's your own flag you're totally cool to do whatever you want to it

[@joedirt7553]

@@nannerz1994🤡

[@fremontpathfinder8463]

@@GregGregory-b8o Texas vs Johnson protects burning the flag but they can be arrested for burning someone's property

[@Gloria-ro4vn]

Where are you from, some third world country? We have laws in the USA, it's a CRIME to trespass on someone's land, destroy their property, and commit ARSON, yes he started a fire, he can be charged for Arson. FYI, "ignorance of the law is no excuse, you can still be arrested and tried and serve time in prison."

[@gilbertcamarena5271]

This is maga county!!!

[@jaminova_1969]

Sadly, not many people have respect anymore for others property or rights! My suggestion is for communities to hire private security to patrol and do the ob the police should be doing at night and to install surveillance cameras. There are ner' dwellers who use the cover of darkness to commit their crimes! Also, a watch dog wouldn't hurt either!

[@SaveAmerica69]

Are you going to pay for that? Most people leave the crap state because they're getting sick and tired of living in that hellhole place.

[@Robert-eg2oy]

Before flying a flag people should know the protocol. You are to never fly an American flag at night unless you have a light shining on it, and a porch light does not count

[@metripod67210210]

If you look close you can see he has a light built into the flagpole. I know the light works I see it every night

[@nessa_amo8077]

I don’t doubt who they are…

[@shondrawhite9317]

Who?

[@bobbykhan4699]

maybe he mistakenly took it for an Israeli flag

[@mandoball1980s]

Shelby puts in the work. Reporting the news from everywhere

[@JohnLocke1776]

Terrorism

[@bobsagits]

No. The Court has recognized that the First Amendment protects certain forms of symbolic speech. Flag burning is such a form of symbolic speech. When a flag is privately owned, the owner should be able to burn it if the owner chooses, especially if this action is meant in the form of protest.

[@JohnLocke1776]

@@bobsagits you can't burn other people's property. The 1st amendment doesn't apply when you go onto someone's lawn and set fires 🔥 🙄

[@45-will-prevail-to-the-47]

@@bobsagits What's your address ?

[@bobsagits]

​@@45-will-prevail-to-the-471313 mockingbird lane why you sending me pizza ? 😮

[@aviationphd]

Try that in a small town

[@winthropbaker5494]

Shirley did it

[@carloszamudio4492]

Do they carry the fire 🔥

[@chinatownboy7482]

Wake Up

[@angelsdevils2956]

Grab your brush put a little makeup

[@Theonetruegod-hw2ei]

Fake outrage from conservatives 😂😂😂😂

[@nicolasrobacinni4831]

Imagine if that would be a mexican flag

[@paulcedillos8121]

So where not playing games....darn it

[@mrtruth1748]

Well it is California

[@adui_yako]

They're always waving Mexican flags; it was probably one of them.

[@Jesus.X]

Nah this was more likely a white college aged leftist Palestine sympathizer.

[@collinhall9629]

This is not news. I know the whole street got cameras. This is a super white/ white hispanic area.

[@AC-hu5tg]

Cameras aren't going to do a damn thing if he's walking around on foot, in the middle of the night, wearinng a mask

[@Vrillon2025]

They're punishing it

[@AquaTech225]

Bidens people

[@jamesperez1360]

NOBODY FEARS THE LAW OR ATHORITY THANK U BIDEN

[@HeyItsAvi90]

Man yall are obsessed with biden, if your sandwich was made with one less pickle you'll blame biden as well. lmao

[@bobsagits]

​​@@HeyItsAvi90"can't even eat a sandwich anymore it's all Joe's fault " 😢

[@HeyItsAvi90]

@@bobsagits Whiny republicans i swear lol

[@bobsagits]

​@@HeyItsAvi90Everything Republicans feel is wrong it's all Biden's fault like he's not that great of a president but he's not out there taking multiple court case loses like old Trumpy boy nor is everything is Joe's fault. They are just out here reaching for anything.

[@Basboy]

Law and Authority ha ..yet you support people accused and increasingly found guilty of doing much crime.

[@debbiekosareff1747]

Thats just plain old sad, sorry for your loss, criminals are among us God keep us all safe.

[@Mauiwowie05]

Lol you own a house in la Verne but don’t own cameras 😂

[@illuminate2140]

Pretty common honestly

[@saleenr6]

try that in a small town

[@lindabatton5172]

Good job reporter giving the world his reading location.. SMDH..🤷‍♀️😑

[@erasmoyanez678]

When she saids his country should she have included herself too or did she made a mistake.

[@metripod67210210]

How do you know there isn't a light on it?

[@Arz2003]

Biden Lovers

[@bobsagits]

Trump lovers did worse when he lost 😂

[@Dwn2Race]

Democrat Utopia…

[@sasham1280]

Who does that??

[@-.__328]

I blame all this Palestine and Hamas bullcrap

[@SoyBoricuan]

🇵🇷🤝🏼🇲🇽

[@quickzcopingHD_]

JOE BIDENS AMERICA

[@chipmunktubetop]

ur dum

[@joedirt7553]

@@chipmunktubetop🤡

[@bobsagits]

​@@chipmunktubetopfacts

[@shondrawhite9317]

Probably burned his own flag.

[@weho_brian]

Murica

[@OgCONEJO._]

Trump 2024

[@bobsagits]

Dude takes more L's in court cases than anyone who's running for president 😂😂

[@XpapricaX]

He probably dint give out good candly so they “tricked him”

[@Jesus.X]

This is treason.

[@fremontpathfinder8463]

No it is legally protected speech- see the USSC case, Texas vs Johnson but too many Americans are ignorant of real civics and our rights. That's why they fell under the sway of an authoritarian like Trump?

[@bobsagits]

No. The Court has recognized that the First Amendment protects certain forms of symbolic speech. Flag burning is such a form of symbolic speech. When a flag is privately owned, the owner should be able to burn it if the owner chooses, especially if this action is meant in the form of protest.

[@bobsagits]

It's not treason for burning someone's else's flag

[@nothx512]

HATE CRIME....

[@THEhorihito]

You spelled "inside job" wrong.

[@UnstoppableYaris]

Whoever did this, failed basic history in Jr. High.

[@Gloria-ro4vn]

No, Grade School, my 5 year old niece knows it's a crime to trespass on someone's land and destroy their property.

[@THEhorihito]

​​@@Gloria-ro4vn apparently you need to ask her what the difference between history and civics classes are.

[@bighorn9119]

USA number 1

[@kidwichita]

Thank a democrat

[@bobsagits]

Classic Republican / conservative response. Or "Thanks Biden" 😂😂😂 y'all need new material.

[@fobikloko6368]

​@@bobsagits go support Ukraine 😂

[@kidwichita]

@@bobsagits then who's fault is all this? Trump?

[@bobsagits]

​@@fobikloko6368I will don't worry about who or who I don't support 😊 Go back to fan girling over Goku.

[@bobsagits]

​@@kidwichitaWow never heard that line before as well, But also never said he was too blame as well.

[@christophermozeleski7149]

Sounds like a hate crime.

[@Biscuit9891]

🤣🤣🤣

[@bobsagits]

Lol 😂

[@RealAaron317]

That's arson

[@BajatheChickenMan]

In LA this could be almost anybody.

[@angelsdevils2956]

Almost

[@IAMjmmypockets]

No cameras to see your neighbor ...

[@petergriffinson1907]

You know it’s a democrat that burn that flag

[@AlexanderLunariusG7]

“Spartans! Ready your breakfast and eat hearty, for tonight we dine in Hell!”

[@FirstRealAmerican]

LOL

[@effrin999]

Not newsworthy

[@rickytorres5293]

😂

[@KOVIDGOON]

Welcome to america where ppl fly every other flag but hates america! Smh

[@raremoney6278]

☝☝☝PROBABLY HAMAS AND PALESTINE RELATED☝☝☝

[@CCxKiller13]

LOL shock hahahahaha

[@alksjda]

Biden 2024

[@brookingsbeachcomber]

joe briben's plan in action

[@danielabilez3619]

Until disbelievers see that flag on the number of coffins as I have. They connot make the connection between the flag, the person, & their commitment. Why that house was choosen, just me. They guy who did it has watched that house for a while.

[@Scrappy90059]

Pookie and Ray Ray was the one set tin fire to a bunch of ribs and chickens cuz Roscoe Rib can't make enough so the brothers make more but no this aint them chief🐖🐥👍

[@mhughes1160]

Even the tear er ist are chanting fjb. LoL 😂

[@Grant-wn4ep]

Trump whined like a little girl on the stand today

[@joedirt7553]

@@Grant-wn4ep🤡

[@bobsagits]

​@@joedirt7553look at the court footage of your cheese puff with the dumpy .. out of the many court trial's he's had looks like he's good at losing court cases 😂

[@Junk65]

fake news

[@jamesperez1360]

F JO BITEN

[@bobsagits]

It's spelled Biden and Joe

[@MarcLugo-18]

14

[@jrgraymondss]

Maybe its a neighbor he has beef with

[@Chisel_Chest]

What did Shirley do?

[@FrankGallagherr]

Probably Tyrone

[@bobsagits]

Very original racist comment Frank .

[@MarcLugo-18]

Your wrist. 14!

[@SaveAmerica69]

Mexifornia

[@Jesus.X]

I think the person that did this was more likely a palestine sympathizer leftist probably middle class white in college. probably had blue hair and pronouns.

[@gulpmymeat6969]

LMAO 😂😂

[@Mr.Happy7ODSubscribe]

Ain't nuttin to be proud of The country has gone to a fecal basket

[@bobsagits]

😂"ain't Nuttin' "

[@MarcLugo-18]

14

[@jamesperez1360]

F JO BITEN