“Off with his head!” was presumably the cry of the individuals involved in the beheading of a Christopher Columbus statue in Boston. The statue of the famed explorer in Christopher Columbus Park in the city’s North End was found with its head lying on the ground early Wednesday morning. JOSEPH PREZIOSO via Getty Images Someone decapitated the statue of Christopher Columbus in Boston. It’s not the first time the Columbus statue has been beheaded: It was also vandalized and later restored in 2006. Also on Wednesday, a separate Columbus statue was thrown into a lake in Richmond, Virginia.

Source: Huffington Post June 10, 2020 16:06 UTC