Crews removed the damaged statue and placed it in storage the day after vandals defaced it. Security camera footage captured a suspect, who was found and arrested. Powered and implemented by FactSet Digital Solutions. Vandals defaced the monument with graffiti in June. The Cape Girardeau City Council voted 6-1 to remove the monument from Ivers Square. Police arrested seven suspects shortly afterward. Virgin Mary statue in New York City vandalized. Someone ripped a statue of Frederick Douglass from its base in Rochester on the 168th anniversary of the celebrated abolitionist’s famous speech there titled “What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?” The statue suffered significant damage, authorities said. Statues of Father Junipero Serra are being taken down or torn down due to his historical involvement in enslaving and killing the native people of California. The next day, crews removed the statue from outside Albuquerque Museum. July 24: Christopher Columbus, Illinois. Aug. 10: Confederate monument, Georgia. They dragged a bronze depiction of a cavalryman down the road with a rope around its neck and hung the statue from a lightpost. Vandals spray-painted obscenities and other words on a sculpture of Spanish conquistador Don Juan de Oñate outside El Paso International Airport in Texas. Police were present, but made no arrests. Boston police are investigating a reported fire outside St. Peter Parish at 10 p.m., where they found the burned statue. The San Gabriel church, which was undergoing renovations for its upcoming 250th anniversary, went up in flames around 4 a.m., burning the roof and insides of the church. July 23: Confederate monument, Arizona. “This will be another box that they’re going to check off,” he said, adding, "It's a tragic loss for our city. Drake, an English naval officer who famously circumnavigated the world, died in 1596 at age 55. Workers removed a statue of Thomas Ruffin, chief justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court before the Civil War, from the state’s Court of Appeals in Raleigh. “Moving this statue will not change the past. All rights reserved. Workers removed a stone monument to Confederate troops in Phoenix. Rioters covered the monument with graffiti and pulled down one figure, which hit a man in the head, landing him in a hospital. The vandals set afire and defaced the depiction of Linn once it was on the ground. Overnight, workers removed the William Wing Loring monument from University of Florida property in St. Augustine, Florida. 12. June 14: John Greenleaf Whittier, California. June 12: Christopher Columbus, Pennsylvania. The act was a “hate crime,” Chris Marzan, spokesman for the California Mexican American Veterans Memorial Foundation, said. Leave a comment, Police officers watch over a statue of Jefferson Davis, president of the Confederacy, that was pulled down by vandals June 10 in Richmond, Virginia. Rioters had attempted to topple the statue in mid-July. The bronze statue had stood in Old Town Alexandria since 1899. June 19: Confederate monument, Georgia. Crews removed a statue of Henry Lawson Wyatt, believed to be the first Confederate soldier killed at the start of the Civil War, from its location in Raleigh. The Gainesville City Council voted unanimously to remove a Confederate monument from Leonard Park. July 4: St. Junipero Serra, California. Also, another church fire in San Diego is being investigated by police as the 12:30 a.m. Sunday morning blaze seems “suspicious," the department’s Metro Arson Strike Team said. The Albemarle County Board of Supervisors voted unanimously to remove the 900-pound bronze statue of a figure known as “At Ready” from outside the county courthouse. Rioters littered a Confederate monument in Norfolk,  Virginia, with toilet paper and graffiti, including the letters “BLM.” City officials said they planned to remove the monument. The Daily Signal depends on the support of readers like you. 92. June 19: Francis Scott Key, California. The list may not be complete, so numerous are the incidents. Crews removed a 30-foot Confederate monument from Decatur Square in Decatur, Georgia. Workers removed a 100-foot monument known as “Confederate Soldiers and Sailors” from Libby Hill Park in Richmond. Vandals spray-painted a statue of Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de León in Bayfront Park, the same Miami park where someone defaced the Columbus statue. Filing an auto insurance claim? Get all the stories you need-to-know from the most powerful name in news delivered first thing every morning to your inbox. Market data provided by Factset. Try the Morning Bell and get the day’s most important news and commentary from a team committed to the truth in formats that respect your time…and your intelligence. She died in 1912. Rioters pulled down the statue of Columbus that had stood in Richmond, Virginia, since 1927. July 14: Alexander Andreyevich Baranov, Alaska. Workers removed a statue of former Vice President John C. Calhoun from Marion Square in Charleston. Vandals defaced a statue of the Founding Father and first president in Washington Park, covering the base in red spray paint reading “SLAVE OWNER” and “GOD BLESS AMERIKKKA.” The perpetrators also placed a white gown and hood on the sculpture. Market data provided by Factset. … That carries huge symbolic meaning.” June 30: New York City Hall, New York, Rioters used black spray paint and tape to deface statues of three figures standing on the side of New York City Hall in Manhattan. June 8: Confederate monument, North Carolina. Powered and implemented by FactSet Digital Solutions. Fox News’ Travis Fedschun contributed to this report. Vandals did succeed in defacing the base of the statue with graffiti reading “KILLER” and “RACIST SCUM,” among other things. There is no “vast anti-catholic conspiracy”. Graffiti reading “BLM” (an acronym for Black Lives Matter) covered the base of the statue, which had stood in the park since 1891. Ever feel like the only difference between the New York Times and Washington Post is the name? What?," Mike Cernovich, a controversial right-leaning author, said in a video on Twitter. July 28: Confederate monument, Texas. Someone decapitated a statue of Columbus outside Waterbury City Hall. PASTOR SLAMS CNN, DON LEMON FOR CLAIMING JESUS WASN’T PERFECT: ‘UNCONTESTED CHAMPIONS OF FAKE NEWS’. 93. Join the millions of people who benefit from The Daily Signal’s fair, accurate, trustworthy reporting with direct access to: Don’t have time to read the Washington Post or New York Times? Authorities said a protest began peacefully, but quickly grew violent. By the governor’s order, workers removed a monument dedicated to the women of North Carolina who lived during the Civil War. Officials decided to remove a statue of Philip Schuyler, a Revolutionary War general, from in front of Albany City Hall. The City Council voted unanimously July 15 to remove and relocate the statue, KCOY-TV reported. Crews removed a statue of St. Junipero Serra, the 18th-century Roman Catholic priest and missionary, from outside Ventura City Hall. Rioters attempted to tear down a statue of Andrew Jackson in Lafayette Square near the White House, but police intervened. Someone applied graffiti to deface the plaque in front of the statue of Lee at Antietam National Battlefield in Sharpsburg, Maryland. You can follow him on Twitter, Florida man drives car into church, sets building on fire with parishioners inside. Activist Shaun King called for all images depicting Jesus as a "White European" and his mother to be torn down because they're forms of "White supremacy" and "racist propaganda.". 105. Rioters toppled a statue of Francis Scott Key, author of “The Star-Spangled Banner,” on the day known as Juneteenth, which commemorates the day in 1865 that slaves in Texas learned Lincoln had freed them a year and a half earlier. The statue is at Antietam National Battlefield in Sharpsburg, Maryland. Rioters toppled and set fire to a statue of St. Junipero Serra, an 18th-century Roman Catholic priest, outside the California State Capitol in Sacramento. May 31: Charles Linn, Alabama. The memorial had been in its original location on Quintard Avenue for 115 years. A vandal or vandal pulled down a statue of John McDonogh outside Gallier Hall in New Orleans. 44. 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