In wake of Charlottesville violence, several Confederate monuments vandalised across US
Even as the Charlottesville violence continues to cause political upheaval in the US, various confederate monuments have been vandalised across the country
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Even as the Charlottesville violence continues to cause political upheaval in the United States, various Confederate monuments have been vandalised across the country. Reuters
On Sunday, police said that a Confederate statue in Kentucky was vandalised with orange paint. Park workers discovered the act of vandalism on Sunday morning, a day after violent clashes erupted at a rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. Reuters
Crews were trying to clean the 15-foot bronze statue erected in 1913 for John Breckinridge Castleman, who served as a major in the Confederate army and later a brigadier general in the US Army, according to a historical marker. Reuters
Vandals also defaced the Lincoln Memorial in Washington with an obscene message scrawled in red spray paint. The writing on one of the huge columns at the monument dedicated to slain president Abraham Lincoln was detected in the early hours of Tuesday. The message "appears to state '[expletive] law.'" Reuters
People also resorted to more traditional ways of protest as they waved anti-Trump signs in front of Trump Tower in New York City. Trump was widely criticised for failing to quickly and unequivocally denounce the actions of white supremacists in Charlottesville. Reuters