Illinois Man Charged With Desecrating American Flag After Posting Photos On FB

WE NEED TO SEE MORE PEOPLE CHARGED WITH THIS

A 22-year-old Illinois man has been charged with desecrating the American flag after he posted photos on Facebook FB +0.28% along with messages decrying the state of violence and race in the U.S.
This is the first time the Urbana Police Department has seen the flag desecration statute used in 27 years.
Bryton Mellott was booked into the Campaign County Jail at about 9:47 a.m. Monday after police received numerous calls from citizens concerned about his safety and theirs. The calls started coming in around 7:30 a.m., Sgt. Andrew Charles told me over the phone.
The calls prompted the Urbana Police Department to investigate Mellott’s Facebook page, where he had posted photos of him burning an American flag along with the following commentary.
“I am not proud to be an American. In this moment, being proud of my country is to ignore the atrocities committed against people of color, people living in poverty, people who identify as women, and against my own queer community on a daily basis,” Mellott wrote on Facebook in a post.