Christopher Columbus Statue in Central Park Is Vandalized
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A more than century-old statue of Christopher Columbus inside Central Park was discovered defaced on Tuesday morning, its hands stained with red paint and its pedestal scrawled with graffiti including the hashtag “#somethingscoming.”
A parks worker alerted the police to the defacement of the 1892 bronze, which stands north of the 65th Street transverse, at 7 a.m., according to the New York Police Department. On the pedestal, the words “Hate will not be tolerated” had also been written in white spray paint.
Depictions of Columbus have been swept into a national conversation about the public veneration of historical figures with controversial pasts. That debate erupted in violence last month when white supremacists protested the removal of a statue of the Confederacy’s top general, Robert E. Lee, from Charlottesville, Va., a riot that resulted in one woman’s death.
3rd Christopher Columbus Statue in NY Vandalized in 2 Weeks, This Time in Central Park
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