Ramsey County prosecutors on Wednesday charged a self-described “right wing libertarian” in connection with a summertime vandalism spree that targeted LGBTQ+ Pride flags and anti-Trump signs in St. Paul’s Highland Park and Macalester-Groveland neighborhoods.

George Thomas Floyd, 23, of St. Paul is also charged with smashing windows at a bookstore, coffee shop and St. Paul Academy and Summit School that cost more than $14,000 to repair altogether.

Floyd faces two counts of felony property damage. He was released without bond Wednesday after a brief court appearance.

Floyd did not enter a plea to the latest charges, but he pleaded not guilty previously to a count of possessing burglary tools that prosecutors filed in July. In that initial incident on June 6, Floyd allegedly approached a P

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