A statue honoring law enforcement officers killed within the motorway of responsibility change into once far from a park in Virginia’s capital metropolis Thursday morning after it change into once covered in red paint
June 12, 2020, 1: 13 PM
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RICHMOND, Va. —
A statue honoring law enforcement officers killed within the motorway of responsibility change into once far from a park in Virginia’s capital metropolis Thursday morning after it change into once covered in red paint.
Video bought by news outlets showed a truck hauling the Richmond Police Memorial far from Byrd Park, the same self-discipline the assign a statue of Christopher Columbus change into once torn down, assign of abode on fireplace and thrown into a lake Wednesday.
The bronze memorial change into once placed at the positioning in 2016 and lists the names of 39 fallen Richmond law enforcement officers, news outlets said.
The statue change into once damaged at some stage in ongoing protests sparked by the loss of life of George Floyd, a handcuffed sunless man who died two weeks within the past after a white Minneapolis police officer pressed his knee on his neck for additional than eight minutes as he pleaded for air.
The transient removal comes as protesters in Richmond and across the nation contain called for the removal of monuments many bid are symbols of racism. On Wednesday, protesters toppled a statue of Accomplice President Jefferson Davis that sits along Monument Avenue, a few week after Gov. Ralph Northam ordered a statue honoring Accomplice Odd Robert E. Lee be taken down from its bid on the same avenue.
The police memorial change into once assign of abode to be restored and “returned to public prove,” WRIC-TV quoted a spokesman for Mayor Levar Stoney as pronouncing.
