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NEW YORK (AP) — Crews spent a good part of the day Sunday cleaning a statue memorializing George Floyd in New York City’s Union Square Park. Someone who fled on a skatboard threw paint on the statue Sunday morning. Two other recently erected statues were untouched.
Police say video shows an unidentified person on a skateboard throwing paint on the statue at approximately 10 a.m. Sunday morning before 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.
A statue honoring George Floyd in New York City has been vandalized again. Police say a video shows a man on a skateboard throwing paint on the statue, then fleeing. The statue, now in Manhattan, also had been vandalized after its unveiling in Brooklyn. https://t.co/8znjsG4scC
— The Associated Press (@AP) October 3, 2021
The Floyd statue also was vandalized shortly after it was unveiled in Brooklyn in June. Floyd’s killing at the hands of police in Minneapolis last year galvanized racial justice actions across the country.
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