Some residents in Northside are alarmed after reports of a man burning pride flags in the neighborhood early Wednesday morning.

Porch camera footage provided to WVXU shows a man ride up to one house on a bicycle about 5 a.m. Wednesday.

He lights a pride flag hanging from the house's wooden porch on fire and says "I hope it burns your house down," before using a homophobic slur.

Warning: video contains explicit language.

WVXU spoke to Jon King, the owner of the house. He says he and his wife were asleep when the incident happened. They discovered the burned flag a couple hours later.

"It could very well have lit our house on fire," King said, noting his porch is wood and the flag hung very near a sun shield. "That turned it from just annoying vandalism to, 'this is attempted arson with

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