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In calls to end racism, sculptures vandalized, removed, or re-evaluated around the world

By Associated Press

June 16, 2020

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A statue of Christopher Columbus is shown vandalized at Bayfront Park in Miami, Thursday. Miami police say that several people were arrested for vandalizing the statue of Columbus and Juan Ponce de León during a protest Wednesday over the death of George Floyd, a black man who died last month while in police custody in Minneapolis.
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A statue of Christopher Columbus is shown vandalized at Bayfront Park in Miami, Thursday. Miami police say that several people were arrested for vandalizing the statue of Columbus and Juan Ponce de León during a protest Wednesday.
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In this file photo from Wednesday, a damaged Christopher Columbus statue stands in a waterfront park near the city's traditionally Italian North End neighborhood, in Boston, USA., after the statue was found beheaded that morning. Statues of the 15th-century explorer and the Spanish conquistadors who followed him and colonized much of the Americas have not become targets for demonstrators in Spain and USA. The death of George Floyd at the hands of police and Minneapolis, USA, has sparked a re-examination of injustices and inequalities in the fabric of many societies, often symbolized in statues of historical figures have become the focus of protest around the world.
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This bronze statue of Don Juan de Onate leading a group of Spanish settlers from an area near what is now Ciudad Chihuahua, Mexico, to what was then the northern most province of New Spain in 1598 stands outside the Albuquerque Museum in Albuquerque, N.M., on Friday. The collection of statues, which includes an indigenous guide, a priest, women settlers and soldiers, is titled "La Jornada." Two public statues of Spanish conqueror Juan de Oñate in New Mexico are drawing renewed attention and criticism as memorials erected in honor of Confederate leaders and other historical figures worldwide become a focus of protests.
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Macon County officials covered the base of a Confederate statue, Friday, in Tuskegee, Ala., after it was vandalized with spray-painted obscenities. The Alabama county is seeking to remove the statue that sits in a town square.
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The Dallas Confederate War Memorial statue at Pioneer Park sits behind barricades, fencing and is covered in black plastic in Dallas, Friday. The obelisk statue, that is over 65-feet-tall, resides next door to the Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center and just blocks away from City Hall. The memorial depicts the scene of a Confederate soldier standing atop an obelisk surrounded by Confederate President Jefferson Davis and Gens. Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson and Albert Sidney Johnston. City officials are currently considering whether the memorial should be removed.
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The Dallas Confederate War Memorial statue at Pioneer Park sits behind barricades, fencing and is covered in black plastic in Dallas, Friday. The obelisk statue, that is over 65-feet-tall, resides next door to the Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center and just blocks away from City Hall. The memorial depicts the scene of a Confederate soldier standing atop an obelisk surrounded by Confederate President Jefferson Davis and Gens. Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson and Albert Sidney Johnston. City officials are currently considering whether the memorial should be removed.
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The word "racist" is scrawled in red under the name of John McDonogh on a pedestal in Duncan Plaza in New Orleans, Saturday. Demonstrators pulled down the bust of McDonogh, a slave owner who left his wealth to build schools, and took the remains to the Mississippi River and rolled it into the water.
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In this frame grab from video posted on Twitter, protesters bring down a bust of slave owner John McDonogh, Saturday at Duncan Plaza in New Orleans. The protesters then took the remains to the Mississippi River and rolled it into the water. The destruction is part of a nationwide effort to remove monuments to the Confederacy or with links to slavery as the country grapples with widespread protests against police brutality toward African Americans.
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In this June 8, 2020 file photo an inspection crew from the Virginia Department of General Services takes measurements as they inspect the statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee on Monument Avenue in Richmond, Va. Six property owners along Monument Avenue in Virginia's capital city filed a lawsuit Monday seeking to stop Gov. Ralph Northam's administration from removing the towering statue.
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In this Aug. 1, 2018, file photo, a statue commemorating fallen Confederate soldiers stands in front of the East Feliciana Parish Courthouse in Clinton, La. The 30-foot tall statue of a Confederate soldier was erected in front of the Clinton courthouse in East Feliciana Parish in 1909. The parish in southeastern Louisiana will meet next week to hear arguments on whether to remove the statue that has already been the subject of litigation.
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Workers remove the pedestal that supported a statue of Christopher Columbus after the the pedestal and statue were taken down today in St. Louis. The statue that stood in Tower Grove Park since the late 1800's was removed this morning amid a growing national outcry against monuments to the 15th century explorer.
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Workers remove the pedestal that supported a statue of Christopher Columbus after the the pedestal and statue were taken down today in St. Louis. The statue that stood in Tower Grove Park since the late 1800's was removed this morning amid a growing national outcry against monuments to the 15th century explorer.
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Construction workers remove a statue of Spanish explorer Juan de Oñate from in front of the Albuquerque Museum today in Albuquerque, N.M. The statue was at the center of a protest Monday, where one man was shot.
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A statue of "Pitchfork" Ben Tillman is seen outside the South Carolina Statehouse today in Columbia, South Carolina. Tillman, who was white, led a race riot that killed four black men in 1876. Some activists want his statue removed and Clemson University wants to remove his name from a main campus building.
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A city worker measures the statue of Christopher Columbus at Marconi Plaza as they build a cover today in the South Philadelphia neighborhood of Philadelphia.
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City workers cover the statue of Christopher Columbus at Marconi Plaza today in the South Philadelphia neighborhood of Philadelphia.
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In this March 18, 2020, file photo, a statue of Queen Isabella and Christopher Columbus stands in the rotunda of the Capitol in Sacramento, Calif. Calling Columbus "a deeply polarizing historical figure," Senate President Pro Ten Toni Atkins, D-San Diego; Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon, D-Lakewood; and Assembly Rules Committee Chairman Ken Cooley, D-Rancho Cordova, announced today that the controversial statue will be removed.
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In this June 4, 2018, file photo a demonstrator is removed from the statue of Queen Isabella and Christopher Columbus in the rotunda of the Capitol, by a California Highway Patrol officer, during a protest in Sacramento, Calif. Calling Columbus "a deeply polarizing historical figure," Senate President Pro Ten Toni Atkins, D-San Diego; Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon, D-Lakewood; and Assembly Rules Committee Chairman Ken Cooley, D-Rancho Cordova, announced today that the controversial statue will be removed.
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People walk past a bust of former Belgium's King Baudouin being vandalised and covered in red paint in Brussels, Friday. The red paint vandalism of the statue forms part of anti-racism protests in Brussels.
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A man is interviewed by a journalist next to a bust of former Belgium's King Baudouin being vandalised and covered in red paint in Brussels, Friday. The red paint vandalism of the statue forms part of anti-racism protests in Brussels.
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A bust of Belgium's King Leopold II is smeared with red paint and graffiti in Tervuren, Belgium on June 9, 2020. With the protests sweeping the world in the wake of the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis, King Leopold II is now increasingly seen as a stain on the nation as demonstrators demand he disappear from public view and authorities take heed. Statues of the late king have defaced in at least a half dozen cities across Belgium.
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Red paint is seen on a statue of late Italian journalist Indro Montanelli, in Milan, northern Italy, Sunday after protesters threw red paint and scrawled the words scrawled ‘’rapist’’ and ‘’racist’’ on it overnight. The statue of Montanelli, inside a Milan park that bears his name, has been a flashpoint in Italy’s Black Lives Matters protests, which have put renewed focus on Italy’s colonial past.
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Red paint and writing reading in Italian "racist", top, and "rapist’’ are seen scrawled on the bottom part of a statue of late Italian journalist Indro Montanelli, inside a park in Milan, northern Italy, Sunday. Montanelli, who inspired a generation of Italian reporters, admitted in the late 1960s that he had a 12-year-old Eritrean bride while stationed in the Italian colony in the 1930s. The death of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police officers sparked a reexamination of the injustices and inequalities underpinning many countries’ histories.
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Red paint is seen on a statue of late Italian journalist Indro Montanelli, who had acknowledged having had a 12-year-old Eritrean bride while stationed in the Italian colony in the 1930s, in a Milan park that bears his name, northern Italy, late Saturday. The statue of Montanelli has been a flashpoint in Italy’s Black Lives Matters protests, which have put renewed focus on Italy’s colonial past.

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