Pride flag crosswalk vandalized in Gananoque, Ont.

The archetypal Pride emblem crosswalk successful Gananoque was painted connected Friday, and was vandalized soon afterwards.

“I’m precise disappointed. I truly had anticipation that the assemblage of Gananoque was amended than that,” says Lynn Pretsell of the Rainbow Connection of the Thousand Islands.

Pretsell, a section activistic and LGBTQ2 supporter, archetypal brought the thought of a rainbow crosswalk to council. The question to make the first-ever rainbow crosswalk successful the municipality was passed successful June.

“It’s 2021. Its clip for radical to spell retired and unrecorded their champion beingness and not justice different radical connected however they take to unrecorded their life,” she says.

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Gananoque Police Chief, Scott Gee, says assemblage complaints helped to find the driver.

“We really received 3 complaints astatine the aforesaid clip from members of the nationalist who witnessed the incident, astatine which clip our officers responded and located the operator and arsenic a effect of the probe the operator was charged with stunt driving arsenic good arsenic mischief to property,” Gee says.

Pretsell says the achromatic tyre marks won’t beryllium staying for precise long, with the municipality moving swiftly to hole the damage.

“We volition beryllium backmost astatine it Friday greeting this week to repair the damage,” she says. “And really with a 2nd overgarment it volition beryllium adjacent brighter than before. So that’s amazing.”

Chief Gee says helium wants the LGBTQ2 assemblage to cognize that helium stands with them.

“Things similar this wont beryllium taken lightly, and resources volition beryllium enactment in. We request to nonstop a connection to the assemblage that this wont beryllium tolerated.”