SAN LEANDRO, Calif. - An East Bay couple who hung a Pride flag outside their home for the first time, say they were shocked to see someone walk up to their house in San Leandro and set the flag on fire Wednesday morning.
Pride flag up in flames
"Standing right here preparing some food and I looked up and was like, whoa," Daniel Montgomery said.
From his kitchen window, Montgomery said he saw their rainbow flag burnt and in tatters.
Montgomery and his husband Nick Garcia, checked their home security cameras and saw a man approach the flag over their garage door around 6:30 in the morning. In the video you see him setting the flag on fire.
"Even with the sensor lights going off, they didn't have regard for it and still did it. So the mission was clear: to destroy property and make u