Posted on 02/27/2023 12:40:36 PM PST by ChicagoConservative27
Vandals doused the statue of Christopher Columbus in Central Park with red paint and scrawled “Murderer” across its stone pedestal, police said Monday.
Detectives have a video of two people — possibly a man and a woman — defacing the statue at about 11:30 p.m. Sunday with spray paint, an NYPD spokesperson said
The pair wrote “land back” on three sides of the bronze-and-granite statue and “Murderer” on another, police said.
There’ve been no arrests, but the NYPD is investigating the incident. If caught, the spray-paint artists will likely be charged with vandalism and making graffiti, the spokesperson said.
Metal barricades surrounded the 131-year-old statute Monday morning, Fox News said.
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Wanna stop this crap? Shoot ‘em. That doesn’t sound very pro-life.
“The pair wrote “land back””
If Columbus had never lived, the Americas would have been found by Europeans only eight years later when Cabral found himself in Brazil while sailing to India.
Yes he killed some Indians after he came back and found that they had killed the men he left behind.
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