The incident originally coming to light because one of Brian’s children made a post about it on Facebook. “Somebody may be charged with that particular statute.” “This certainly is being investigated as a potential of being a hate crime,” the chief said. Waterbury Police Chief Fernando Spagnolo told News 8 police are investigating and taking this incident very seriously. “Saddened that someone destroyed it and that there’s so much hate in someone’s heart to do that,” he said. “We noticed our flag was burned,” Brian said. As they were pulling into their driveway, they could see something was different about the Pride Flag mounted in their front yard. A Pride flag was burned in a family’s front yard.īrian Petrarca and his family got quite a shock when they returned home from church Sunday. (WTNH) - A disturbing discovery in Waterbury.
