Irrelevant Information Department ...

Some doofus Yalees set fire to someone else's flag. So Rueters feels the need to tell us about the '89 "Flag Burning" case :

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in 1989 that flag burning was protected under constitutional free-speech guarantees, invalidating laws in 48 states and outraging veterans' groups and others who say that an important national symbol should be protected from defacement.

... which of course was about people burning their own flags, not ones owned by others.