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Funeral home worker loses job after he rips up Starbucks Pride flag in wild rage
A funeral home worker in Florida is out of a job after video of him attacking a Pride flag at a Starbucks was shared online, and he was arrested.Imade some poor decisions that led to my rightful arrest and termination from my career at the funeral home, he wrote in a handwritten appeal to a judge, requesting permission to leave the county to seek employment elsewhere. Related Rainbow-flag bearing vandal sprays anti-gay cult onto churches in the dead of night Tucker Alden Kemp, 31, of St Petersburg, made national headlines last month when he told the manager of a Starbucks that the coffee shops Pride flag should be replaced by an American flag, saying the rainbow is offensive to him. The manager refused to redecorate, so Kemp, according to his arrest affidavit, decided to take matters in his own hands.According to The Smoking Gun, he threw his tea at the rainbow flag, ripped it off the wall, and put it in a trash can.Kemp was arrested and is facing a charge of criminal mischief. Police believe he caused $210 worth of damage to the flag and wall. After his arrest made headlines, he lost his job at Dignity Memorial, a funeral home, where he had worked for over a decade.Kemp is a registered Republican whose Facebook page used to say: Priorities: 1.God 2.Family 3.Business. Now most posts have been deleted from his Facebook page, and his account name was changed to Patriott Tucker.
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