The statues were torn down … 30. By the governor’s order, workers removed a monument dedicated to the women of North Carolina who lived during the Civil War. Workers removed a marker for Jefferson Davis Memorial Highway near Phoenix. Police arrested and charged two men, identified as Caleb Wassell, 27, and Michaela Davis, 32, who they said drove the bust to the Mississippi River and dumped it into the water. Stuart, Confederate general, from Richmond’s Monument Avenue. A group of vandals toppled a bust of John McDonogh, a wealthy entrepreneur and slave owner who died in 1850, in New Orleans’ Duncan Plaza near City Hall. Protesters in North Carolina's capital pulled down parts of a Confederate monument on Friday night and hanged one of the toppled statues from a light post. 80. The monument was erected as a gift to the city in 1931. Vandals defaced the monument with graffiti in June. 50. Castleman became a brigadier general in the U.S. Army after the Civil War and was instrumental in setting up Louisville’s segregated park system, The Courier-Journal reported. July 14: Confederate monument, Florida. Virginia Allen Workers removed Chicago’s third and last statue of Columbus from Drake Fountain in the southern part of the city. June 19: Francis Scott Key, California. Police officers initially stopped the demonstrators. July 11: The Virgin Mary, Massachusetts. July 23: Jefferson Davis Memorial Highway marker, Arizona. Sutter abused and enslaved Native Americans in the 1840s, according to HistoryNet. The archbishop’s statement came after a statue of St. Junipero Serra was torn down in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park Friday, along with statues of Francis Scott Key and Ulysses S. Grant. The statue was a gift from the city of Montpellier in southern France as a symbol of friendship. June 10: Christopher Columbus, Virginia. The Justice Department on July 2 charged four men with defacing the statue, including a man identified as a ringleader. A mob toppled a statue of Charles Linn, a Confederate navy captain … 106. 70. … 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. CARDINAL DOLAN DECRIES 'DANGEROUS' REMOVAL OF MONUMENTS: 'MEMORY AND TRADITION ARE VERY, VERY IMPORTANT'. ", Sean Feucht, a California worship leader and pastor, commenting on the incidents asked, "Where's the outrage? June 19: Confederate monument, Georgia. July 12: Confederate monument, North Carolina. Statues of Junipero Serra, an 18th-century Spanish priest, were torn down in cities across California. Gov. Workers removed a statue of Frank Rizzo, the Democratic mayor of Philadelphia in the 1970s, from the steps of the Municipal Services Building. 96. June 19: Ulysses S. Grant, California. A mob cheered as it pulled down a statue of Christopher Columbus in Saint Paul, Minnesota. The sculpture had been on display since 1883. May 31: Charles Linn, Alabama. June 20: St. Junipero Serra, California. or redistributed. The City Council of Rocky Mount, North Carolina, approved removal of a Confederate monument featuring a soldier standing atop a tall pillar. Crews removed a statue of Columbus from Grant Park in Chicago. Sometime in June, a vandal or vandals stole a brass plaque honoring “Confederate frontiersmen” from Picacho Peak State Park in southern Arizona. The vandals painted words such as “ABOLISH KCPD” and “FEDS GO HOME” over the names of Kansas City officers killed in the line of duty. The Henry County Board of Commissioners had voted 4-1 three weeks earlier to take down the monument after a petition garnered more than 13,000 signatures, Fox 5 in Atlanta reported. July 24: Confederate monuments, Virginia. Filing an auto insurance claim? Authorities said a protest began peacefully, but quickly grew violent. July 9: Confederate monument, Georgia. Vandals defaced the statue with graffiti and wrapped an American flag around its head and set it on fire. Marxist-anarchist mobs destroy statues, trample on history and seek to remove Trump ... St. John’s Episcopal Church and vandalize and attempt to tear down the statue of President Andrew … 45. 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. PASTOR SLAMS CNN, DON LEMON FOR CLAIMING JESUS WASN’T PERFECT: ‘UNCONTESTED CHAMPIONS OF FAKE NEWS’. A crowd of 400 gathered and watched in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park as vandals pulled down the monument. (Photo by Eric Lafforgue/Art In All Of Us/Corbis via Getty Images) (CNSNews.com) – Boston police are investigating the deliberate setting alight of a statue of the Virgin Mary outside a Roman Catholic … 104. 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. June 12: Christopher Columbus, Pennsylvania. Mutual Fund and ETF data provided by Refinitiv Lipper. June 8: Confederate monument, Indiana. They also pounded the statue with sledgehammers. Caldwell County commissioners voted 4-1 to relocate a Confederate monument that has stood on the lawn of the county courthouse in Lockhart. Vandals beheaded the statue of Columbus in Boston’s North End, prompting the city to remove it. Legal Statement. So, when the Knights of Columbus erected a statue to Fr. A mob set fire to an iconic, 120-year-old statue of an elk atop a fountain in Portland, which also had been covered with graffiti in recent weeks. Market data provided by Factset. They threw chains around the statue in an apparent reference to what they said was Roosevelt’s hostile treatment of Native Americans. 76. Rioters pulled down the statue of Columbus that had stood in Richmond, Virginia, since 1927. But the recent destruction of monuments to Junipero Serra, the founder of the California mission system -- whom Indigenous activists view as a symbol of oppression -- will be a factor in the investigation, Capt. >>> Related: 8 Acts of Vandalism, Desecration at Churches Across Nation. 84. 39. 7. June 14: John Greenleaf Whittier, California. Vandals have not discriminated among the monuments they target, defacing statues of Confederate and Union soldiers alike, and going after those that have no association with racism, such as a 120-year-old statue of an elk in Portland, Oregon. Rioters had spray-painted the bronze monument of the general atop a horse. The group gathered around the fallen statue shouting, “Black lives matter” before setting it on fire with lighter fluid. The Anniston, Alabama, City Council voted 4-1 to remove a memorial of Confederate war hero John Pelham, whose hometown was nearby Alexandria, as a show of support for protesters. A vandal or vandals toppled a statue of Lee in Roanoke, Virginia. 86. July 4: Christopher Columbus, Maryland. Some sources say the Spanish missionary abused Native Americans on the West Coast and subjected them to forced labor. Quotes displayed in real-time or delayed by at least 15 minutes. House Speaker Eileen Filler-Corn, a Democrat from Fairfax County, ordered removal of the sculptures. Roy Cooper, a Democrat, ordered work crews to remove what was left of the monument. Protesters Tear Down Junipero Serra Statue In NorCal ... marking the latest of several Serra statues to be torn down this year ... Serra brought Catholic missions to California in the 18th … June 13: Christopher Columbus, Rhode Island. July 4: Christopher Columbus, Connecticut. 8. A violent mob came to tear down a statue, a Catholic preist tried to civilly … Early June: Matthias Baldwin, Pennsylvania. She is the co-host of The Daily Signal Podcast and Problematic Women. From 1799 to 1818, Baranov was in effect the first governor of Alaska. Police were looking for a third man who they said hammered and spray-painted the bust. July 22: Roger B. Taney, District of Columbia, The House of Representatives voted 305-113 to remove a bust of Roger B. Taney, the U.S. chief justice who wrote the Supreme Court’s Dred Scott decision, from the Capitol. A statue of Catholic missionary St. Junipero Serra was toppled in a San Francisco park Friday, along with statues of Francis Scott Key and Ulysses S. Grant. Workers used a crane to remove a statue of J.E.B. The Gainesville City Council voted unanimously to remove a Confederate monument from Leonard Park. Someone applied graffiti to deface the plaque in front of the statue of Lee at Antietam National Battlefield in Sharpsburg, Maryland. 44. 85. 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." They placed a burning American flag on top of the statue before throwing it into a nearby lake. 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? Demonstrators toppled a statue of Williams Carter Wickham, a Confederate general, in Richmond’s Monroe Park. June 24: John C. Calhoun, South Carolina. July 30: Christopher Columbus, Illinois. (Photo: Parker Michels-Boyce/AFP/Getty Images). Activists toppled a statue of Junipero Serra from its post at Placita Olvera in downtown Los Angeles on Saturday. Workers removed a 27-foot statue of a Confederate soldier in Virginia Beach, 13News reported. DeKalb County Judge Clarence Seeliger ordered the monument be taken down and stored, WSB-TV reported. Vandals defaced a monument to Confederate soldiers in Amarillo with orange and blue paint. Eight such incidents occurred in North Carolina, 12 in California, and 15 in Virginia. Louisville was named after Louis XVI, the last king of France before the French Revolution, in honor of the monarch’s support for American colonists during the Revolutionary War. Boston’s Art Commission voted to remove a statue of President Abraham Lincoln holding the Emancipation Proclamation while a freed slave rises from a kneeling position with broken shackles on his wrists. The Athens-Clarke County Commission voted unanimously to remove this Confederate memorial dating from 1872. “This will be another box that they’re going to check off,” he said, adding, "It's a tragic loss for our city. 23. The Cape Girardeau City Council voted 6-1 to remove the monument from Ivers Square. Someone decapitated a statue of Columbus outside Waterbury City Hall. 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. The fire destroyed the rooftop and most of the interior of the nearly 250-year-old California church that was undergoing renovation. Vandals defaced—and/or officials removed—at least four statues and other monuments in each of eight states: Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Louisiana, New York, Oregon, and Texas. Doug Ducey, a Republican, has not announced plans to replace the marker, the Arizona Capitol Times reported. 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. Drake, an English naval officer who famously circumnavigated the world, died in 1596 at age 55. A mob vandalized a memorial to fallen police officers outside Police Department headquarters in downtown Kansas City. 28. Graffiti reading “BLM” (an acronym for Black Lives Matter) covered the base of the statue, which had stood in the park since 1891. “Moving this statue will not change the past. Antonio Negrete of the San Gabriel Fire Department told the local Fox 11 news outlet. Workers also removed a plaque in honor of Thomas Bocock, speaker of the House for the Confederate States of America. 49. Crews lifted the remains of the sculpture from the water the following Monday. Crews removed a statue of St. Junipero Serra, the 18th-century Roman Catholic priest and missionary, from outside Ventura City Hall. June 30: Lincoln Emancipation Statue, Massachusetts. Several local residents spent hours scrubbing the words “Old white man,” “tear it down,” and “Black Lives Matter” off the monument. Police arrested and charged three men and one woman in connection with toppling a statue of Robert E. Lee outside a high school in Montgomery, Alabama, that bears the name of the celebrated Confederate general. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez). 53. A large crowd beheaded statues of four Confederate soldiers, all part of the same monument, in Portsmouth, Virginia. “We’ve got to find a way to come together,” Mayor Lenny Curry, a Republican, said the next day. Here’s What She Saw. A vandal or vandals spray-painted the acronym BLM on a statue of Columbus on Chicago’s Museum Campus. Busts removed included those of Jefferson Davis, president of the Confederacy; Fitzhugh Lee, Confederate cavalry general and 40th governor of Virginia; Confederate generals J.E.B. 72. ©2020 FOX News Network, LLC. 47. Demonstrators used ropes to pull down a statue of Jefferson Davis, president of the Confederacy, in Richmond, Virginia, which was the capital of the Confederate States of America. June 10: Christopher Columbus, Massachusetts. “It was torn down for its Catholic associations, and it was recast as church bells for an Anglican Church,” she 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. Demonstrators pulled down statues of two Confederate soldiers from a monument just outside the State Capitol in Raleigh. June 30: Confederate monument, Georgia. All rights reserved. Statues of Junípero Serra, Juan de Oñate and Kit Carson, also involved in mistreatment of Native Americans, were also torn down or removed. June 3: Confederate Cemetery, South Carolina. They dragged the statue of an artilleryman to the front of the Wake County Courthouse. Nationally, rioters have targeted Catholic churches and statues of Jesus and Mary. “We are sincerely grateful for the help we have received as well as the prayers. 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. Vandals broke off one of the hands on the statue during the first night of protests in May; vandals also spray-painted the statue with graffiti. So people, read your history books and here in California, people have been tearing down statues … Crews removed a statue of Robert E. Lee and busts of seven other Confederate leaders from the Virginia Capitol in Richmond. The Massachusetts-born Pike, a journalist, lawyer, and orator, resigned from the Confederate States Army in July 1862. Rioters had attempted to topple the statue in mid-July. The monument, built in 1892, commemorates a Confederate artillery unit known as the Howitzers, the Richmond Times-Dispatch reported. Stuart, Stonewall Jackson, and Joseph E. Johnston; Matthew Fontaine Maury, Confederate naval officer; and Alexander Stephens, vice president of the Confederacy. The Board of Park Commissioners in La Crosse, a town about two hours northwest of Madison, Wisconsin, voted unanimously to remove from Riverside Park the Hiawatha statue of a Native American man. You can follow him on Twitter, Florida man drives car into church, sets building on fire with parishioners inside. Vandals spray-painted obscenities and other words on a sculpture of Spanish conquistador Don Juan de Oñate outside El Paso International Airport in Texas. ... a Catholic priest responsible for missions across California. Mutual Fund and ETF data provided by Refinitiv Lipper. July 24: Christopher Columbus, Illinois. A vandal or vandals defaced a statue of Ireland-born businessman Marcus Daly with graffiti on the Montana Technological University campus in Butte. June 15: Don Juan de Oñate, New Mexico. Whittier was a delegate to the first meeting of the American Anti-Slavery Convention, the Whittier Daily News reported. 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. 25. The memorial had been in its original location on Quintard Avenue for 115 years. The bronze depiction of Davis originally was placed along Monument Avenue in 1907. 78. 56. 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A man in Florida plowed his vehicle into the Queen of Peace Catholic Church as it was preparing for morning Mass on Saturday, poured gasoline in the foyer, and then set the building on fire before driving off, the Marion County Sheriff's Office reports. According to the Tennessee State Museum, Carmack criticized Ida B. July 15: George Washington, Louisiana. Rizzo allowed violence against black Americans while mayor from 1972 to 1980, The Philadelphia Inquirer reported. “We’re not going to agree on everything—that’s just not human history, human nature. Several statues of Jesus, Saint Mary, and three children were torn down and defaced by night at a Catholic church. Boston police are investigating a reported fire outside St. Peter Parish at 10 p.m., where they found the burned statue. 40. A crowd cheered as rioters toppled a statue of Albert Pike, apparently the only Confederacy-related statue in Washington, D.C. 74. Images of the Madonna and Child replaced with pictures of “People’s Leader” Xi Jinping.Signs posted outside … A small group of demonstrators used black spray paint to cover a plaque at a monument reading “In memory of our Confederate patriots 1861-1865,” outside the Walker County Courthouse in Huntsville, Texas. Vandals defaced a statue of inventor, manufacturer, and abolitionist Matthias Baldwin in Philadelphia with graffiti reading “COLONIZER” and “MURDERER” on an unknown date in early June. Crews removed the damaged statue and placed it in storage the day after vandals defaced it. A man spray-painted the word “racist” and the acronyms “BLM” and “ACAB” (an acronym for “All Cops Are Bastards”) on a statue of Lawrence Sullivan Ross, a Confederate general, on the Texas A&M campus in College Station. The Madison City Commission voted 3-2 to remove a 23-foot statue honoring Madison County’s Confederate soldiers, which was dedicated in 1909. Oct. 12:  Roosevelt ‘Rough Rider’ statue, OregonRioters in Portland, Oregon, toppled a statue of President Theodore Roosevelt as part of the “Indigenous Peoples’ Day of Rage.”  They defaced the statue with red paint and used a blowtorch on the base. A statue of the Virgin Mary was set on fire outside a Boston church Saturday night, NBC 10 Boston reports. June 13: Christopher Columbus, Illinois. Following George Floyd's police-related death in May, Black Lives Matter leaders and protesters called for the toppling of statues, from Confederate symbols to former U.S. presidents and abolitionists. Some now call Drake a “slave trader” because as a young man 30 years earlier, he sailed under a cousin who led early slaving voyages. 22. The Los Angeles Times reported that Native Americans of various ages gathered around the face-down statue as some doused it with red paint. Wells, an African American journalist and civil rights advocate who wrote against racial injustice. Despite the church foyer being heavily damaged, Mass was celebrated Saturday and Sunday, according to the local news. July 23: Confederate monument, Arizona. They also defaced the statue, which stood outside Thomas Jefferson High School, with graffiti reading “SLAVE OWNER,” among other things. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, A man and a woman threw balloons filled with red paint on two statues of Washington that stand on either side of the famed arch at Washington Square Park in Manhattan. The United Daughters of the Confederacy removed the “Appomattox” statue in Alexandria depicting a lone soldier to commemorate all of the city’s Confederate soldiers. State officials announced plans to return the monument to the United Daughters of the Confederacy. 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. Nathalie Voit contributed to this list, which was updated and expanded July 31, Aug. 7, and Nov. 2. 52. July 4: St. Junipero Serra, California. President Trump has adamantly opposed toppling any monuments and symbols, signing an executive order to protect them, and punish offenders with prison time. Black Lives Matter protesters had defaced the memorial by spray-painting it with graffiti. The statue is at Antietam National Battlefield in Sharpsburg, Maryland. June 8: Confederate monument, North Carolina. 83. The Madison County Commission voted to remove a Confederate monument outside the courthouse in downtown Huntsville, Alabama. / San Francisco Archbishop Cordileone gave a dignified response that included much prayer (including the prayer to St. Michael and the Rosary) at the park where the statue of Junipero Serra was was torn … The Loring monument was moved to privately owned land in accord with the wishes of Loring’s descendants. A Columbus statue … Vandals had covered the statue in graffiti, and its location has been the site of numerous protests since Floyd’s death. Macon Mayor Robert Reichert, a Democrat, announced plans to remove a prominent Confederate monument during a meeting of the Macon-Bibb Board of Commissioners. Vandals had covered the base of the monument—featuring a Confederate soldier atop a pillar—with graffiti. Crews removed a statue of Raphael Semmes, an admiral in the Confederate navy, in downtown Mobile, Alabama. 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. 33. 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. 16. The university announced its decision to remove all Confederate monuments from university-owned land in June. Crews removed a 30-foot Confederate monument from Decatur Square in Decatur, Georgia. Virginia Allen is a news producer for The Daily Signal. Rioters covered the monument with graffiti and pulled down one figure, which hit a man in the head, landing him in a hospital. Ever feel like the only difference between the New York Times and Washington Post is the name? July 14: Confederate monument, Georgia. We do. 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. Around the country mobs have targeted Christopher Columbus and Founding Fathers deemed racist. The La Crosse Tribune reported that Mayor Tim Kabat, a progressive, requested the action. A vandal or vandals partially pulled down a statue dedicated to the Confederate  soldiers of Sampson County, North Carolina. The bronze statue had stood in Old Town Alexandria since 1899. Vandals defaced a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee with graffiti reading “BLM” and “RACIST,” among other things. Loring was a Confederate soldier who also fought during the Mexican-American War and  later represented the United States as inspector general to the sultan of Egypt. 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.". The city planned to remove the statue sometime after a public hearing Aug. 17. Then get The Morning Bell, an early morning edition of the day’s most important political news, conservative commentary and original reporting from a team committed to following the truth no matter where it leads. Statues of controversial figures tied to slavery are being toppled across the Bay Area and beyond. Powered and implemented by FactSet Digital Solutions. But there is a lot of obfuscating on your part about what is occurring. Overnight, workers removed the William Wing Loring monument from University of Florida property in St. Augustine, Florida. Albuquerque Mayor Tim Keller, a Democrat, announced the removal of a statue of Spanish conquistador Don Juan de Oñate after the shooting of a man during rival protests around it. 8 Acts of Vandalism, Desecration at Churches Across Nation, Deep policy understanding from over 100 experts. The City Council voted unanimously to remove the statue two days before it was moved to a storage facility. At the order of the city manager, workers removed a statue of explorer Francis Drake from Larkspur Landing, the main Golden Gate Ferry terminal in Larkspur, California, SFist reported. 46. The list may not be complete, so numerous are the incidents. 2. Authorities dropped charges of first-degree criminal mischief against all four June 11. ©2020 FOX News Network, LLC. A mob pulled down a statue of St. Junipero Serra, an 18th-century Roman Catholic priest and missionary, that had stood in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park for over a century. "Why is this not the biggest story of the day. June 6: Williams Carter Wickham, Virginia. Rioters toppled a bust of Ulysses S. Grant, the Union general and later president who played an integral role in ending slavery in America. The Daily Signal depends on the support of readers like you. This was the second time it was removed. Someone spray-painted the words “F— Colonizers” on the base of a statue honoring Mexican-American soldiers in Sacramento. He was executed by guillotine in 1793. 15. There is no “vast anti-catholic conspiracy”. The incident marked the third time the statue has been defaced in recent years. A mob toppled a statue of Charles Linn, a Confederate navy captain who was one of the founders of Birmingham, Alabama. July 7: Christopher Columbus and Queen Isabella, California. June 10: Christopher Columbus, Florida. July 28: Confederate monument, Texas. Vandals previously had defaced the statue with paint in 2015 and beheaded it in 2006. July 25: Confederate monument, Virginia. 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