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Earlier this year, vicious protests broke out against ICE agents in Seattle. According to local reporting, protesters blocked the Seattle federal building before pulling down its American flags and lighting them on fire. It was not the first time that recent anti-Trump administration protests have culminated in flag burning, of course: Protesters did the same thing in Los Angeles and D.C. The sight of a burning flag has grown so common, in fact, that President Donald Trump recently signed an executive order aimed at encouraging the prosecution of flag desecration-related crimes.
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