COLUMBUS, Ohio ( WCMH ) — Columbus police are investigating a hate crime after a man was caught on a home surveillance camera allegedly urinating on a pride flag.
The incident happened on the night of Feb. 8 and posted online on Sunday.
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In the video, a man can be seen walking up the porch of a home in the Weinland Park area near the Ohio State University campus. Meanwhile, a second man stays at the bottom of the porch stairs, recording the incident on a cell phone.
The man on the porch then exposes himself and begins urinating on the pride flag, saying, “F*** the gays, f*** the gays,” while holding up a middle finger. The man then bangs twice on the house’s doors before the two men run from the scene.
After the video was posted, one of the victims said Columbus police contacted them.
“It was less than two hours, less than two hours because it exploded a little bit on Reddit,” Zoe, one of the home’s residents, said. “Our major goal was just to have a record that something happened; it was less about pursuing, like, some sort of justice for the situation as it were because it’s not exactly like it can be undone.”