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"While we were saddened by his actions, our city remains committed to equality.
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"Thankfully the Delray Beach Police Department was able to identify and arrest him just days after the crime was committed," Petrolia said. "We're now living in an age where people feel empowered to go out and deface a synagogue, or a mosque or this week, a memorial to the LGBTQ pride community," he said. Hoch said that Delray Beach has many senior citizens who are openly LGBTQ and that hundreds of people came out Saturday to celebrate the new rainbow streetscape.Īlexander Jerich, 20, is accused of vandalizing an LGBTQ Pride streetscape in Delray Beach, Florida by doing a "burnout" with his vehicle, police said. Jerich has been charged with criminal mischief over $1,000, reckless driving, and evidence of prejudice, a felony enhancement, the police report said. We've been working with the LGBTQ community and the city, governments and county governments for decades," Hoch said, who pointed out he was Florida's first openly gay judge in the 1990s. His organization alongside the AIDS Healthcare Foundation paid $16,000 for the artwork's installment. "When I first saw the video, I was just taken aback," Rand Hoch, president of the Palm Beach County Human Rights Council (PBCHRC), told Newsweek. "Just two days after we joyously celebrated the ribbon cutting of the Delray Beach Pride Streetscape, a young man from a nearby town callously vandalized this symbol of unity and inclusion," Delray Beach Mayor Shelly Petrolia said in a statement to Newsweek.
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Read more: /PrmKmOJjKS- WPEC CBS12 News June 18, 2021 WATCH: A man was arrested after he was caught on camera doing what appeared to be an intentional âburnoutâ with his vehicle over the LGBTQ pride crosswalk in Delray Beach, causing significant damage to the streetscape painting.