Justice department drops charges against veteran who burned US flag via US news | The Guardian — Jan ‘Jay’ Carey torched the Stars and Stripes to protest against Trump’s executive order banning flag burning The prosecution of a man who burned the American flag near the White House in protest of an executive order against flag burning has been dropped by the US Department of Justice. On Friday, the justice department moved to dismiss charges against Jan “Jay” Carey, 55, a military combat veteran who set the flag on fire in Lafayette Square in Washington DC in August, the day that Donald Trum

The Justice Department dismissed charges against a veteran who burned the US flag in protest of an executive order banning flag burning. The act occurred in Lafayette Square.

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