The arrested man identified himself as a combat veteran and said he was burning the American flag in protest of an executive order Trump signed Monday targeting flag burning.
The arrested man identified himself as a combat veteran and said he was burning the American flag in protest of an executive order Trump signed Monday targeting flag burning.
He did it on pavement, dropped the flag onto pavement, and kept a safe distance. There was no danger of it spreading to anything else flammable
It’s about what is legal and what is not legal.
It’s not legal to set fire on the sidewalk. Everyone accepts that to be true and a pretty good law.
Burning flags in general is legal, most people accept that to be true and think that it’s a pretty good law.
When you do something illegal, while doing something legal, in order to prove that the second thing was legal. You muddy the waters and give ammunition to people who want the second thing to be illegal.