Man arrested over flag burning near White House after Trump’s executive order
Washington – The federal authorities arrested a man on Monday on the other side of the rue de la Maison Blanche after set fire to an American flag the day of the day that President Donald Trump signed a decree intended to reprimand the burns of the flag.
The man, who identified himself as a 20 -year -old combat veteran in a video published on social networks by the replacement media, said: “I burn this flag as a demonstration against this illegal fascist president who is in this house”, while he pointed to the White House of Lafayette Square.
The secret services declared in a statement that he had held the man around 6:15 pm for having lit an object “and that he was given to the police of the American park.
Park police said they stopped man for ranging a law that prohibits lighting a fire in a public park.
The arrest intervened a few hours after Trump signed an executive decree to suppress the “desecration” of the American flag in the context of the incentive violence or the violation of other laws.
The order orders the Attorney General Pam Bondi to “vigorously continue” the people who burn the American flag while engaging in other offenses, and he says that it “could continue a dispute to clarify the scope of the exceptions of the first amendment in this area”.
The Supreme Court ruled 5-4 in 1989 that the Constitution protects the burning of the American flag.
Trump’s order does not make the flag burns a crime or does not assess a penalty, but he maintains that burning flags in a way that is likely to encourage action without imminent law “or is equivalent to” combat words “is not protected by the Constitution.
When he signed the Order, Trump said: “When you burn the American flag, it encourages riots at levels that we have never seen before. People go crazy.”
DC’s American lawyer, Jeanine Pirro, played a key role in the Trump administration’s efforts to exercise federal control over certain parts of Washington and showed a desire to go aggressively after low -level transgressions. She said this month that her office had charged a man accused of having launched a sandwich against a federal agent in DC with assault crime.
