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"Offended" Man Arrested For Ripping Pride Flag From Starbucks Wall

A Starbucks patron who was “offended by a Pride flag hanging” in the coffee shop threw his drink on the flag and then ripped it from the wall and stuffed the item in a garbage can, cops report.

Tucker Kemp, 31, was arrested yesterday for criminal mischief in connection with the incident at a Starbucks in Florida.

Investigators say Kemp, seen at right, entered the Starbucks around 9:15 AM and spoke to a manager “about being offended by the flag and the fact that they should put up an American flag.”

After the worker explained that it “was their policies” to display the Pride flag, Kemp allegedly “decided to take matters in his own hand,” according to an arrest affidavit.

Kemp, cops charge, doused the flag in tea and then “ripped the flag from the wall” and put it in the trash. Cops estimated that Kemp caused about $210 in damages to the wall and the flag.

Booked into jail on the misdemeanor count, Kemp was freed from custody yesterday afternoon upon posting $500 bond. Kemp works as a sales manager at Dignity Memorial, a Tampa Bay-area funeral home chain.

According to public records, Kemp lives in Clearwater with his wife and young daughter and is a registered Republican. His Facebook intro says, “Priorities: 1.God 2.Family 3.Business.” In a post yesterday, he linked to a Fox News story about a purported Bible-buying boom in the wake of Charlie Kirk’s killing.