Vandals forcing organizers of memorials for civil rights figures

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We fight, We win
It’s one of numerous monuments to U.S. civil rights figures or events around the country that have been attacked by vandals through the years, forcing organizations and elected officials to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars to repair or replace the monuments and equip them with surveillance. There’s no movement to pass federal protections for such memorials, and advocates of the sites say their only recourse has been to rely on local and state vandalism and hate crime laws to prosecute suspects.


Those claims involve marginalized groups pressing to be remembered while white nationalists and racists refuse to acknowledge those struggles, he said.


After 20 years with no vandalism, the Holocaust Memorial was hit twice in 2017, he said. His group spent $70,000 on repairs and $75,000 on security cameras.


https://www.courant.com/nation-worl...0191124-omwsxotvajhohdth7gjgips5ya-story.html
 
I wonder if vandalism has increased since Confederate monuments have been taken down?

Retribution?

"British memorial for Battle of New Orleans eyed"
https://www.stripes.com/news/veterans/british-memorial-for-battle-of-new-orleans-eyed-1.322108

"CHALMETTE BATTLEFIELD, La. — Two hundred years after the Battle of New Orleans was fought on a bitterly cold and foggy Jan. 8 in 1815, no one knows for sure what happened to the remains of the hundreds of British soldiers killed on that bloody day."

"As for the slain British officers, including the commander Maj. Gen. Edward Pakenham, it's known what happened to them: Their entrails were buried and their embalmed bodies shipped back to Britain in rum barrels."
 
Retribution?

"British memorial for Battle of New Orleans eyed"
https://www.stripes.com/news/veterans/british-memorial-for-battle-of-new-orleans-eyed-1.322108

"CHALMETTE BATTLEFIELD, La. — Two hundred years after the Battle of New Orleans was fought on a bitterly cold and foggy Jan. 8 in 1815, no one knows for sure what happened to the remains of the hundreds of British soldiers killed on that bloody day."

"As for the slain British officers, including the commander Maj. Gen. Edward Pakenham, it's known what happened to them: Their entrails were buried and their embalmed bodies shipped back to Britain in rum barrels."

Were you there Mr. Meoff?
 
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