The Cincinnati Fire Investigations Unit announced Thursday it arrested Thomas Niehaus, 52, in connection with the burning of pride flags on porches in Northside earlier this week.

At least one of the Wednesday incidents was captured on video. In that video shared with WVXU, a person is seen lighting a pride flag hanging from a wooden porch on fire. The figure says, "I hope it burns your house down," before using a homophobic slur.

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

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"It could very well have lit our house on fire," King said. "That turned it from just annoying vandalism to, 'this is attempted arson with hate as the mot

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