In the wake of the Charlottesville riots ostensibly triggered by the removal of a statue memorializing Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee, a rash of vandalism against historical American figures has hit the country. Monday, someone took a sledgehammer to a 200-year-old Christopher Columbus monument in Baltimore.
In Durham, of course, last week a mob toppled a Confederate statue last week while police stood by taking pictures.
In California on Thursday, a statue of Junipero Serra was defaced with red paint and the word “Murder,” as well as a swastika.
Duke University officials removed a statue of Robert E. Lee from the campus chapel Saturday after vandals knocked off parts of his face.
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