By J.D. PROSE

pennlive.com

(TNS) — A western Pennsylvania man charged with harassing homeowners displaying pro-Trump banners has learned his fate from a district judge — and some people are not happy about it.

Christopher Brown, a 60-year-old resident of East Deer Township in Allegheny County, will have his record wiped clean if he completes 10 hours of community service, his lawyer told the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review.

Brown, who was charged last month after police went to social media to try and identify him, had a summary trial on April 17 before a district judge.

He was charged with harassment, disorderly conduct and criminal mischief. Brown’s lawyer said that he would also write a letter of apology.

Aspinwall police said in March that they were looking for the man who had approached one home in October, screamed vulgar insults at the homeowner and then swatted a Trump flag hanging out front.

On March 14, the man was caught on Ring video coming up the front steps of an Aspinwall home with a Trump banner, spitting on the front door and leaving.

That homeowner’s 19-year-old son rushed out to confront the man, later identified as Brown, but he had already left.

The reaction to the community service sentence was mixed with some people criticizing it as too light.

KDKA radio show host Colin Dunlap in Pittsburgh said on X/ Twitter that if the victims were displaying gay pride flags the sentence would have been harsher.

“This is a progressive judge acting as an activist. Period,” he said in an X post.