Woman arrested for starting fire with a Pride flag screams “He is King!” in court

The woman accused of setting fire to a Pride flag was sent to the back of the courtroom to calm down after multiple outbursts, which led the judge to order a mental evaluation to decide if she is fit to stand trial.

The woman, identified as 30-year-old Angelina Cando, was caught on video Monday morning igniting a Pride flag on outside a Manhattan restaurant. She was arrested and charged with multiple hate crimes.

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The flag was hanging outside a restaurant called Little Prince, and the outside of the building sustained minor damage from the flames, according to a report from the New York Times. The inside of the building was not damaged. An employee was inside the restaurant at the time but was able to escape without injury. It took 60 firefighters from 12 different units to put the fire out.

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Video of the incident shows Cando hopping out of a white SUV around 1:35 a.m., taking a lighter to the flag, and then jumping back into the vehicle’s passenger side before it drives away.

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