By AFP More by this AuthorBostonA statue of Christopher Columbus in Boston has been beheaded, police said Wednesday, as calls to remove sculptures commemorating colonisers and slavers sweep America on the back of anti-racism protests. A Columbus statue was also vandalised in downtown Miami, and another was dragged into a lake earlier in the week in Richmond, Virginia, according to local reports. The Boston statue – which stands on a plinth in the heart of town – has been controversial for years, like other Columbus statues across the US, and has been vandalised in the past. Boston police were alerted to the damage shortly after midnight on Tuesday, a spokesman told AFP. It echoed an incident in Bristol, England, on Sunday when demonstrators toppled a statue of a slave trader and dumped it in a harbour during anti-racism protests.

Source: Daily Nation June 11, 2020 08:37 UTC