WEVV (Evansville) reports:
An Evansville woman is behind bars after police say she set an American flag on fire and hung up an ISIS flag….
Authorities say they arrested Sierra Malloy, who made a comment about cutting off two of the officer's heads….
The affidavit shows Malloy had taken down the American flag off Spectrum's flag pole and set it on fire….
Malloy claimed to be ISIS and was saying homophobic slurs to officers.
Malloy was booked into the Vanderburgh County Jail for two counts of communication intimidation, criminal trespass, criminal mischief, and flag desecration.
It is certainly a crime to destroy someone else's flag, like it's a crime to destroy other people's property more generally; that's the criminal mischief charge. But it can't be punished as "flag desecration."
