[glock rocks]

As you look at the pictures above, motive aside, do you deny the monument was desecrated?

[ReignOfError]

As you look at the pictures above, motive aside, do you deny the monument was desecrated?<.I>

It was soiled. "Desecrated" requires intent and motive.

A boy scout who respectfully burns a soiled flag and a punk who burns a flag in protest perform the same physical act. Only one is a desecration. And you cannot tell which is which by looking at the ash.