A statue of Christopher Columbus in the american city of Boston has been chopped off the head of the.
This was stated by city police Wednesday. The police had previously received calls from citizens with demands to remove the statue, as the ‘memories of colonization and slavery’ in the UNITED states.
Christopher Columbus was an Italian-born explorer in the late 1400s and early 1500s.
He was long hailed in school books to be the ‘Discoverer of AMERICA’. He is considered simultaneously by many as the reason for the beginning of the genocide against the indigenous people in the country.
Also in the city of Richmond, Virginia, is a Colombus statue been vandalized, writes local media.
the Incidents happened in connection with demonstrators all over the UNITED states protesting against, among other things raceforskelle under the slogan Black Lives Matter.
the Protests, which began in the aftermath of the black american George Floyd’s death in police custody, has evolved to act on the requirements to remove monuments in the UNITED states, which is associated with racism.
the Statue – which stands on a plinth in the heart of Boston – has been controversial for years, like other Columbus statues throughout the UNITED states, and has been ravaged in the past.
There is no arrested in Boston after the vandalism, report the police.
Boston mayor, Marty Walsh, condemns the beheading of the statue. But says that it will be removed on Wednesday and then will take decision about its future.
In Virginia used protesters a rope to drag the button to the 2.5 meter high statue down and then dump it in a nearby lake.
A similar episode played out Sunday in the british port city of Bristol, where protesters toppled a statue of a slaver and threw it in the water.
the Statue depicts Edward Colston, who was prominent in the deal with about 80,000 men, women and children, who were forced from Africa to America in the 1600s and 1700s.
