New Yorker arrested for burning pride flag and vandalizing NYPD vehicles

Police said a woman was arrested on Monday for alleged criminal activity, including setting fire to a pride flag outside a restaurant in Soho and vandalizing two NYPD vehicles.

Police said Angelina Cando, 35, was charged with hate crimes and other offenses in connection with two incidents that occurred from Sunday evening to early Monday morning.

Kando allegedly set fire to a rainbow flag hanging outside the Little Prince restaurant on Prince Street off McDougal Street in Manhattan around 1:30 a.m. Monday, police said.

The fire damaged part of the building on the outside before it was put out by firefighters.

She was charged with arson as a hate crime, criminal mischief as a hate crime, and recklessly endangering as a hate crime.

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Cando also allegedly scrawled “Jesus is King” on the back of two NYPD patrol cars parked on Varik Street between Erickson Place and North Moore Street Sunday night, police said.

For this crime, she received a slap in the face for possession of graffiti tools.

The arrests are the latest of several arrests by Kando this year, police said. Sources say she was arrested in January for assault and in February for threats.