The community in Roslindale, including city officials, came out to show support for a local business owner after her store’s LGBTQ Pride flag was torn down.

Kelly Walsh, owner of gourmet foods market Russ & Mimi’s, realized her business had been targeted when she arrived at the store Oct. 4 and saw that the flag had been knocked off the flagpole. The flag was discovered the next day in a nearby alley, according to The Boston Globe .

The damage to the pole, which was attached to a wall, gave Walsh good reason to believe the act was intentional. Upon closer inspection, the pole’s metal brackets and anchors had been ripped out of the wall, the Globe reported.

“I can’t believe this happened here, this is not the neighborhood where I expect something like this to happen,” Walsh told th

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