George Floyd statue vandalized
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George Floyd statue vandalized
Less than a week after a statue of George Floyd was erected in Brooklyn, New York City on Juneteenth, the monument has been vandalized with an alleged white supremacy marking.
Four unidentified individuals allegedly used black spray paint to deface the monument and cover the text on its pedestal at 3:40 a.m. on Thursday, just five days after it was unveiled.
On the statue’s pedestal, white spray paint was used to leave the stenciled mark of Patriot Front, deemed a "white nationalist hate group" by The Southern Poverty Law Center , which tracks extremism in the United States.
After vandalizing the monument, the four men fled on foot, police said.
The New York City Police Department’s Hate Crimes Task Force released photos and video of the suspects, seen wearing hoodies or hats and their faces covered with scarves, asking for the public’s help in identifying and locating them.
The 6-foot statue of Floyd was unveiled in the Flatbush area of Brooklyn on Saturday to celebrate Juneteenth. It was set to be displayed at the Brooklyn location for two to three weeks before moving to Union Square in Manhattan.
© Jeenah Moon/Reuters The George Floyd statue is unveiled, as part of Juneteenth celebrations, in Brooklyn, New York, June 19, 2021. ================
Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced an investigation into the defacing of the statue Thursday, saying, “To the group of neo-Nazis who did this, I want to be absolutely clear: get the hell out of our state.”
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“This act of cowardice is not just an attack on the Black community, and it’s not just an attack on the basic human decency George Floyd and his family deserve — it’s an attack on all New Yorkers, and the values our state stands for," Cuomo said in a statement .
Floyd's family member Courtney Nelson condemned the act of vandalism.
"It's only been five days, and it's very disheartening," Nelson said to local ABC station WABC . "And it's disgusting and it's sad and it's cowardly. And they did it like a thief in the night. But you can't stop us."
Anyone with information in regard to this incident is asked to call the NYPD's Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477) or for Spanish, 1-888-57-PISTA (74782). The public can also submit their tips by logging onto the Crime Stoppers website at WWW.NYPDCRIMESTOPPERS.COM, or on Twitter @NYPDTips. The vandalism came about a day before former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, who was convicted in Floyd’s death in April, is set to be sentenced Friday .
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They should consider leaving the white supremacy markings up there for a while to demonstrate what we are dealing with as a society.
Have fun with all the coming 'whataboutism'.
Of course , George Floyd is the equivalent of confederate leaders that felt slavery was cool !
You missed the concept completely. George Floyd being wronged is one thing. Erecting a statue to a thug is another. Alleging "White Supremacy" is even worse.
You're calling George Floyd a thug? How empathetic and compassionate of you!
1st, calling him a thug is petty, insulting and unnecessary. He was a petty thief, the term "thug" is a personal insult.
2nd, I agree, there would have been much better choices for a statue or sculpture than George Floyd. While he was the underlying cause for this injustice coming out into the open, he caused it by breaking the law. He is no Rosa Parks to be remembered for taking an action against racism.
I don't know why anybody gives a crap. It wasn't erected from gov't funds. People pulled money out of their own pocket to have that statue erected
The statue was erected because of collective liberal white guilt.
WTF did they expect?
I get the same kinda warm and fuzzies from this statue that i get from the Che t-shirts some dimwits like to wear without realizing what a total POS he was in real life.
Only the ruling class it would seem.
There are those that hold their flag, their bible, and their heritage as sacrosanct…and god forbid anyone outside their circle come up with a ‘symbolic’ gesture of their own that in any way threatens their idealistic tropes.
Where have I heard that before? Could it be the one who was so clever at dividing & turning all groups against one?
This is obviously much deeper than honoring Floyd the man, this is about finally exposing centuries of excused injustice, plain and simple.
The statue made it about the man.
And I do not give a crap, but that was simply my opinion and worth as much.
Because conservatives feel no guilt over their own racism?
I apologize, Ozz, that didn't come out right at all. I had a feeling you didn't give a crap, either, so you weren't the target of my comment. It's the ones pulling their hair out over this that I should have addressed my comment to
How is that worse when it was White Supremacists who defaced it?
And who has really been the ruling class for the last 40 years? That would be the corporations who have managed to make themselves wealthier while keeping wages stagnant. That would be the evangelical churches who married the conservative corporate class and created the Ugly Baby known as Trumpvangelical Republican Conservatism.
Want to erect a statue of Baphomet on the Arkansas State Capitol grounds? You can, but only for a very short period of time and after you've jumped through numerous burning loops and still get blasted by 75% of the state's population. But not one word must be said about the nativity scene on the grounds every year at Christmas.
So...yeah. You, the ruling class, have symbols that cause you to scream bloody murder anytime anyone challenges them or wants to have something of equal status erected next to it
You're right, Vic is wrong, and what else is new?
Ahhh, the same people that spend days looking for phallic symbols in Disney cartoons?
I havent seen anyone offer the opinion that Floyd would be worthy of a statue other than for the fact that he was illegally killed by police.
THAT IS the reason there is a statue of Floyd, the end. It is symbolic of all those who died under similar circumstances.
Have you noticed that the ones that are so opposed to Floyd's statue, are the same ones that want statues of some of America's greatest enemies from the civil war?
i have noticed that.
Oh an alleged "White Supremacy" marking?
Have they erected a statue to John Dillinger yet? They most likely wrongfully killed him too.
I'm sure there are several inside the John Dillinger museum.
I was not aware that John Dillinger was ever martyred or that he had inspired a social movement, butt...
Is that from his death mask? It's kinda creepy
Yes. That is his death mask.
I loved how he carved a gun from a bar of soap and managed to escape from jail.
Judging by the wording, whoever did it obviously never got past the 5th grade.
This is one of those what's good for the goose, is good for the gander type of things.
Vandalizing? I'm surprised.
I was expecting an hangman's noose suspended from an hastily erected scaffolding.
Recycled.
Only Democrats can turn a criminal loser into a hero and martyr.
It is too bad that Floyd didn't live to see the inside of a prison cell yet again. That is the reason he was resisting arrest; he didn't want to go back to prison. He was deprived a chance of living another several years of his life behind bars; and a chance to make the same mistakes all over again.
Of all of the people harmed by police aggression only the Democrats would turn Floyd into their champion.
Huh, Republicans made one President.
Why do you have to say such hateful things?
I took him off ignore just long enough to read his words.
wow....just wow
Ignorance is the first thing that comes to mind. Of course, being a hateful asshole ranks pretty high as well.
The truth is hateful? I even provided a link that detailed his criminal career.
I really do wish he was alive. Then we wouldn't have gone through the years worth of riots, arson, looting, and assault. The LEO that took his life deserves whatever punishment he gets for his roll in turning this country into a riot zone.
“The truth is hateful?”
apparently to some. The simple truth is society is better off without thugs like floyd.
The protests that were spurred by Chauvin murdering George Floyd you meant to say. There was no truth in your statements.
So murder is an act of aggression. Got it!
You just topped his hateful remark. Didn't think that was possible.
The world would be better off without thug killers like Chauvin
You've also managed again to smear a victim.
You all must be so proud of yourselves
I wasn’t trying to be all warm and fuzzy. It’s a cold hard fact that any society is better off without a criminal element, wouldn't’ you agree?
Better off without thug killers like Chauvin, yes
So kneeling on someone's neck for 9-1/2 minutes struggling for breath and his life, until he was dead, is police aggression.
So Chauvin was the judge, jury, and executioner for someone passing a fake $20 bill.
My God, there is no hope for some. It's unreal. The inhumanity. It's despicable and deplorable. I don't have enough words.
How do you sleep at night?
Kick 'em when they're up.
Kick 'em when they're down.
Kick 'em when they're stiff.
Kick 'em all around.
So what Chauvin did was a good thing in your mind?
Yes, it is
Hopefully, what you mete out will not return on your own head.
If only Republicans would be as vocal in their denouncing white supremacy and the Nazi's that support their party and candidates by saying “To the group of neo-Nazis who did this, we want to be absolutely clear: get the hell out of our party". No doubt we don't hear anything like this from them because they know without the bigots, white supremacists and neo-Nazi's supporting their party they wouldn't ever win another election.
Looks like placeholder was a former banned member spreading some ugliness
Probably muva
I thought that too but I don't think he was banned
My money is on Badfish.
Nah, BF likes his name too much to be anonymous. I go with Muva also.
was there misspelled words and no punctuation?
I still don't get how someone can create an account with no name.
Very possibly a staged incident.
Mr. Reilly eventually compiled a database of 346 hate-crime allegations and determined that less than a third were genuine. Turning his attention to the hoaxes, he put together a data set of more than 400 confirmed cases of fake allegations that were reported to authorities between 2010 and 2017. He allows that the exact number of false reports is probably unknowable, but what can be said “with absolute confidence is that the actual number of hate crime hoaxes is indisputably large,” he writes. “We are not speaking here of just a few bad apples.”