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"They just started pulling it down," Paliwoda recalled, adding she even screamed at the kids to stop. Sarah Paliwoda said she observed about "seven or eight" children, who appeared to be around 11 to 13 years old, step on to her neighbour's property on Wednesday between 12:55 p.m. Sarah Paliwoda, who lives across the street from Burkholder, says she feels 'personally violated' over the alleged incident. "There's so many cases of vandalism against gay people, not necessarily here in Windsor, but around the world, I personally think it was just kids being kids and probably a bit of homophobia involved."
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He said his Pride flag has never been torn down before, adding he's unhappy about the alleged incident but also "not surprised" by it. "Even in a quiet neighbourhood like this, there are gay people - whether they're visible like I am or invisible like some of my neighbours are." The allegation comes just days after the Greater Essex County District School board reported vandalism and theft of Pride flags at four public schools since they were raised last week.įor Burkholder, who has been living in his neighbourhood for 16 years and has been raising the Pride flag outside his home ever since, the flag's purpose is to show passersby that "we are everywhere." The situation has been brought to the attention of Windsor police, according to Burkholder and the neighbour. It turns out the neighbour across the street had left it that way after she allegedly observed a group of pre-teens stepping onto Burkholder's property, pulling his Pride flag off the pole and throwing it on the street. But when he looked around a little longer Wednesday afternoon, he noticed the flag had been folded up neatly on his porch.
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It's normally upright with a Pride flag attached to it. When Windsor resident Dale Burkholder stepped outside his home to check his mail this week, he noticed something odd about the flag pole that's attached to the porch.