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Video surfaces of high school football players burning pride flag: 'Please hold these students accou
Video surfaces of high school football players burning pride flag: 'Please hold these students accountable'
Two football players were indefinitely suspended from their school team for distributing and shooting a video of a burning LGBTQ pride flag on Snapchat.
The students, from Kearns High School in Kearns, Utah, made the video — in which someone is heard laughing and saying, “All gays die” — last week, according to Fox 13
While the students were immediately removed from the football team, Granite School District officials are still determining what measures need to be taken beyond athletics.
A Unified Police Department spokesperson tells Yahoo Lifestyle that while a report about the incident was filed with police, they will not be investigating the issue as a hate crime, as Utah law considers hate crimes as enhancements to criminal offenses. According to the spokesperson, “Burning a flag is not a crime — it’s a freedom of speech issue, and the school is handling it.”
Two football players were indefinitely suspended from their school team for distributing and shooting a video of a burning LGBTQ pride flag on Snapchat.
The students, from Kearns High School in Kearns, Utah, made the video — in which someone is heard laughing and saying, “All gays die” — last week, according to Fox 13
While the students were immediately removed from the football team, Granite School District officials are still determining what measures need to be taken beyond athletics.
A Unified Police Department spokesperson tells Yahoo Lifestyle that while a report about the incident was filed with police, they will not be investigating the issue as a hate crime, as Utah law considers hate crimes as enhancements to criminal offenses. According to the spokesperson, “Burning a flag is not a crime — it’s a freedom of speech issue, and the school is handling it.”
https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/video-surfaces-of-high-school-football-players-burning-pride-flag-please-hold-these-students-accountable-165809589.html
