A man has been charged in a series of acts of criminal damage in which Pride flags and signs opposing President Donald Trump were vandalized in St. Paul neighborhoods this summer.

George Thomas Floyd, 23, of St. Paul, has been charged with two counts of first-degree damage to property and one count of possession of burglary tools following a series of incidents in the Mac-Groveland and Highland Park neighborhoods in late June.

Per the criminal complaint, “dozens” of homeowners reported damage to or theft of Pride flags, political signs depicting anti-Trump, anti-DOGE and “NO KINGS” sentiments, and Black Lives Matter signs between June 23 and 25.

But Floyd didn’t come to the attention of authorities until another resident informed police that her home had also been targeted on June 6, with a Ring doorbell camera capturing a suspect wearing a mask and carrying a knife was trying to open a locked storm door, inside which was a sign reading “We Will Not Obey.”

The suspect fled when the homeowner asked him what he was doing through the doorbell camera, but a description was provided to police, who came across Floyd in early July wearing some of the same items as seen in the Ring video.

A search warrant was executed at Floyd’s home, about two blocks from where the attempted burglary was reported on June 6, and police also obtained a warrant to search his phone.

A note on his phone created on June 4 contained a list of 69 addresses, six of which later reported criminal damage, the complaint states. Two days later, Floyd allegedly sent a text message to his girlfriend showing a Pride flag in a gutter, and the lower part of a yard sign that had been severed.

One of the texts Floyd’s girlfriend allegedly sent to him read: “I love you but you have to stop raiding random people’s houses (without me). You’re like Batman. But like extreme right.”

Another text message arrived from his grandmother in early June, stating that while Floyd lives in a “woke state … there is a right to peacefully protest when it turns to violence it is not legal.”

Further text messages between Floyd and his girlfriend saw him identified as a “right-wing libertarian,” and allegedly revealed that he attended the June 14 “No Kings” rally at the State Capitol, where he said he was carrying a “Trump” sign, and allegedly called a trans woman a pedophile.

Posts linked to Floyd on social media contained anti-LGBTQ messaging, and searches on Floyd’s phone allegedly revealed he had looked up laws on carrying knives in St. Paul.

Early on June 23, 24 and 25, a series of pictures and messages were allegedly taken by Floyd of a number of criminal damage incidents targeting signs and flags in St. Paul. On June 23, Floyd allegedly texted his girlfriend: “The message has definitely been sent.”