A woman is in custody after allegedly vandalizing 21 flags representing the former Republic of Vietnam along Bellaire Boulevard in Houston, raising concerns within the Vietnamese-American community and prompting calls for a hate crime investigation.
Video shows the 44-year-old woman, fully covered, using scissors to cut chunks out of each flag, discarding them on the ground as she moved from one to the next. The incident occurred Sunday evening. She was eventually apprehended by Houston police.
“Put the scissors down,” Giang Nguyen heard a Houston police officer tell the woman. “They were not cut, ripped sideways,” he described…