George Floyd memorial statue in New York City defa
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George Floyd memorial statue in New York City defaced again
Oh what a shame.
Oct 4, 2021
NEW YORK (AP) — A statue honoring George Floyd in New York City’s Union Square Park was vandalized on Sunday, police said.
According to police, a video showed an unidentified man on a skateboard throwing paint on the statue at approximately 10 a.m. then fleeing. Nearby statues of late Congressman John Lewis and Breonna Taylor, a Louisville, Kentucky, woman shot and killed by police last year, apparently weren’t touched.
Police have not released the video.
Sunday's act wasn't the first example of vandalism to the statue memorializing Floyd, whose killing at the hands of police in Minneapolis last year galvanized a racial justice movement across the country.
The statue was unveiled on the Juneteenth holiday in a spot on Flatbush Avenue, in Brooklyn, and it was vandalized five days later with black paint and marked with an alleged logo of a white supremacist group.
Members of the group that installed the statue cleaned it, and local residents and one of Floyd’s brothers gathered in July as it was prepared to move to Union Square, in the heart of Manhattan.
Source:
https://www.aol.com/news/george-floyd-memoria...25708.html
"You think memorializing someone who had as long of a criminal record as Floyd did might influence the respect shown for his bust? I am sorry for the Floyd family for his loss. Tragic death can be devastating to the survivors. But in a time when statues are being torn down because someone else my find something historically offensive about it, how could anyone expect different from this statue of this "Honorable, Saintclike, and Upstanding" citizen and pillar of the community."
"While I don't condone defacing any statues in any public domain, I can understand the frustration some may feel. I don't understand why Floyd even rates a statue...There are many other men and women of color who were/are worthy of this honor established in the form of a statue of remembrance. Floyd was not even a good citizen in his community...I agree that he shouldn't have been murdered like he was, that is a given! He was a human being and as such did NOT deserve that end. But neither is he deserving of a statue in his likeness, that very likely will incite hotheaded people to act out against all that is civil while using Floyd as their hero. HE is NOT a hero."
"George Floyd was a burden on society who was a one 1 man crime wave. This man was in prison 9 times, and now has become a roll model for NOT doing what he was ordered to do by the police. If they hadn't released him from prison he would still be a live today."
Oh what a shame.
Oct 4, 2021
NEW YORK (AP) — A statue honoring George Floyd in New York City’s Union Square Park was vandalized on Sunday, police said.
According to police, a video showed an unidentified man on a skateboard throwing paint on the statue at approximately 10 a.m. then fleeing. Nearby statues of late Congressman John Lewis and Breonna Taylor, a Louisville, Kentucky, woman shot and killed by police last year, apparently weren’t touched.
Police have not released the video.
Sunday's act wasn't the first example of vandalism to the statue memorializing Floyd, whose killing at the hands of police in Minneapolis last year galvanized a racial justice movement across the country.
The statue was unveiled on the Juneteenth holiday in a spot on Flatbush Avenue, in Brooklyn, and it was vandalized five days later with black paint and marked with an alleged logo of a white supremacist group.
Members of the group that installed the statue cleaned it, and local residents and one of Floyd’s brothers gathered in July as it was prepared to move to Union Square, in the heart of Manhattan.
Source:
https://www.aol.com/news/george-floyd-memoria...25708.html
"You think memorializing someone who had as long of a criminal record as Floyd did might influence the respect shown for his bust? I am sorry for the Floyd family for his loss. Tragic death can be devastating to the survivors. But in a time when statues are being torn down because someone else my find something historically offensive about it, how could anyone expect different from this statue of this "Honorable, Saintclike, and Upstanding" citizen and pillar of the community."
"While I don't condone defacing any statues in any public domain, I can understand the frustration some may feel. I don't understand why Floyd even rates a statue...There are many other men and women of color who were/are worthy of this honor established in the form of a statue of remembrance. Floyd was not even a good citizen in his community...I agree that he shouldn't have been murdered like he was, that is a given! He was a human being and as such did NOT deserve that end. But neither is he deserving of a statue in his likeness, that very likely will incite hotheaded people to act out against all that is civil while using Floyd as their hero. HE is NOT a hero."
"George Floyd was a burden on society who was a one 1 man crime wave. This man was in prison 9 times, and now has become a roll model for NOT doing what he was ordered to do by the police. If they hadn't released him from prison he would still be a live today."
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