Workers at a bar in Ohio said that two men ripped down their Pride flag just hours after they put it up and then returned to break a window with a rock.
Beth Rea of O’Reilly’s Pub in Clintonville said she had put up the flag for Pride Month just that afternoon hours before the alleged incident.
‘We are definitely a regulars bar. We are very close with our customers. We’re very accepting of everybody in here.’
“I stapled it here. You can see there’s still a little remnants,” Rea said while pointing to the spot for WBNS-TV.
At about 10:45 p.m., the two ripped the flag down and were confronted by some customers, according to Rea.
“The gentlemen then pulled off and came back probably about five minutes later with the rocks,” she added.
They allegedly threw the rock through a window.
“Luckily, nobody was sitting there,” Rea said, “which was concerning because we were worried about safety, of course, initially.”
The report showed other decorations for Pride Month inside the bar, including other smaller flags and a sign reading “Pride Month.”
She said the incident was unsettling.
“I mean, we are located in Clintonville,” she added. “We are definitely a regulars bar. We are very close with our customers. We’re very accepting of everybody in here.”
They shut down the bar for the night after the incident and boarded up the window, but she said they will be not be intimidated into taking down their Pride decorations.
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“Absolutely not going to stop us from putting up our decorations, not gonna let that intimidate us to the point that we can’t, you know, celebrate Pride,” she added.
WBNS said that Columbus police are investigating the incident and are looking for the two alleged vandals who drove away.
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