3 youths face charges after Pride flag burned at Nova Scotia high school | 24CA News
Three youths are dealing with prices after a Pride flag was set on hearth at Bay View High School in Upper Tantallon final month.
Police responded to mischief on the college on April 21 at 2:45 p.m. They discovered {that a} youth, assisted by two others, had taken down a Pride flag, introduced it outdoors, and set it on hearth. One of the youths captured a video of the incident.
In a launch Friday, the RCMP stated data gathered by investigators “indicates the criminal offence was motivated by hate based on sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression.”
The RCMP stated the three youths have been individually requested to go to the Tantallon RCMP detachment with their dad and mom this week, and have been arrested on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday.
Two of them are dealing with a cost of mischief, and the third is dealing with prices of mischief and abetting. They have been launched on situations and are scheduled to look in Halifax Youth Court on May 25.
The incident was broadly condemned by many members of the college neighborhood. Shortly after it occurred, an indication alongside Hammonds Plains Road in entrance of the college was put up with the message: “Love Wins.” The similar was written in chalk in entrance of the college’s entrance.
Lindsey Bunin, a spokesperson for the Halifax Regional Centre for Education, stated in an electronic mail to Global News final month that these concerned with the incident have “received appropriate consequences” however that HRCE doesn’t share these penalties publicly attributable to privateness issues.
“Anyone who endangers the well-being of others, damages property or significantly disrupts the learning environment receives immediate and appropriate consequences for their actions,” she stated.
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