The 19-year-old who allegedly spray-painted on the Twin Peaks Pink Triangle last Pride Month has been charged with a felony, though not a hate crime, as his attorney says the kid didn’t even know what the Pink Triangle meant.
You may recall that someone vandalized the Pink Triangle placed atop Twin Peaks during last summer’s Pride Month of June, prompting SF Mayor Daniel Lurie to declare “This hateful act of vandalism does not reflect San Francisco’s values and will not be tolerated.” But the suspect was actually caught in the act, and it turns out he was 19-year-old Lester Bamacajeronimo, a high school student who apparently did not realize what the Pink Triangle symbolized.
In fact, the Bay Area Reporter notes that an attorney for the young Bamacajeronimo said he was embarking on an apparent prank in which he was using black spray paint in an attempt to turn the Pink Triangle “into the symbol for the comic book hero Superman.”…