It definitely did scare people.”īut Burch also turned a negative into a positive. “I know that officers have their own language for … identifying the severity of a threat, but to say that it was non-threatening, I think, isn’t an opinion that they can have.
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“Having someone in broad daylight come onto your property and leave a note like that, it is rattling,” Cox said. Krystal Cox, another note recipient, noted that while she supports LGBTQ rights, she had just bought a rainbow doormat because she “thought it was cute.” But she disagreed with the police department’s assessment that the notes are not threatening. He was afraid someone was going to come burn our house down.” “Our 9-year-old son found the note, and he was really upset.
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“It’s just sad, it’s frustrating, it’s gross,” Burch said. See also: Iowa man convicted of stealing and burning Pride flag charged with indecent exposure in jail Police have not yet established whether that note is linked to the other four notes at this time. The note taped to her rental unit also said “burn that gay flag,” but additionally contained an anti-gay slur and derogatory language about HIV/AIDS. Proposed New York Map Pits Two Gay Congressmen Against Each Other That space has a display featuring two Pride flags and two signs reading “Love is Love.” She also told the Tribune that in addition to the message left on her private residence on Saturday, a similar note was posted to the door of a community space she rents in downtown Boone the prior Wednesday. Geddes’ defense attorney has declined to comment on the case.īoone Police Chief John Wiebold previously told the Ames Tribunethat the notes are “certainly harassment,” but the police report claims that notes “spoke in opposition of this support only and were not threatening in nature.”Īpril Burch, one of the four note recipients, said that she did not have a Pride flag outside her home when the note was left, but did have a sign that said: “We believe…love is love” that may have triggered the author of the note. Police said that all four notes were reported within the same hour, and had “consistent handwriting, matching paper tear marks, and marker bleed through each page.” That evidence that was then used to link Geddes to the other three incidents where there was no doorbell camera present.