Vandals spray red paint on base of Robert E. Lee statue on famed Monument Ave.
ASSOCIATED PRESS VIA RICHMOND TIMES-DISPATCH
Paint covers the base of the Robert E. Lee memorial on Richmond’s Monument Avenue on Saturday in Richmond, Va. The letters BLM, an apparent reference to the Black Lives Matter movement, was also sprayed on the base. Virginia Capitol Police, which is responsible for policing the monuments, told news outlets the vandalism occurred late Friday or early Saturday between patrols.
ASSOCIATED PRESS VIA RICHMOND TIMES-DISPATCH
Investigators look at the vandalism on the Robert E. Lee statue on Monument Avenue on Saturday in Richmond, Va. The letters BLM, an apparent reference to the Black Lives Matter movement, was also sprayed on the base. Virginia Capitol Police, which is responsible for policing the monuments, told news outlets the vandalism occurred late Friday or early Saturday between patrols.
RICHMOND, Va. >> A statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee on Richmond’s famed Monument Avenue has been vandalized.
Red paint was splattered on the statue’s base. The letters BLM, an apparent reference to the Black Lives Matter movement, was also sprayed on the base.
Virginia Capitol Police, which is responsible for policing the monuments, told news outlets the vandalism occurred late Friday or early Saturday between patrols.
The vandalism occurs a week ahead of the one-year anniversary of the deadly white nationalist rally in Charlottesville that was organized in part as a protest to plans to remove a Lee Statue there.
A Richmond commission that reviewed the city’s row of Confederate statues on Monument Avenue recommended earlier this year removing a statue of Confederate President Jefferson Davis but keeping others in place.
