Central Park police confirmed to Fox News Monday morning that they were investigating the incident. But they offered no other information.
Vandals doused the statue of Christopher Columbus in Central Park with red paint and scrawled “Murderer” across its stone pedestal, police said Monday.
The pair wrote “land back” on three sides of the bronze-and-granite statue and “Murderer” on another, police said. Some view the statues as symbols of Italian American pride and say they highlight Italians’ contributions to America. Others view Columbus in a different light, and say he was a murderer and colonizer who treated Native Americans brutally when he stumbled upon the continent in 1492.
Police began patrolling the statues after the George Floyd protests in 2020, but canceled it in 2022.in the spring of 2022. But the NYPD kept up routine patrols and installed security cameras to keep tabs on them.Last April, the head of New York’s Italian American groupsfor saying the Columbus Circle monument should come down in favor of “better representations of our wonderful contributions to this country.
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