Less than 3 days after the unveiling, a memorial statue of George Freud in Union Square in New York was splashed with gray paint, and this is the second time that Freud's statue has been damaged by splash paint. New York police are currently searching for suspects, and Freud's statue is in the process of being cleaned up.
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According to the US media NBC local time reported on October 3, at about 10 a.m. that day, the statue of George Floyd in Union Square in New York City was damaged and splashed with gray paint.
New York police said surveillance footage from the scene showed the statue vandal was a man who had first hidden behind a statue next to Freud's statue and pulled paint out of his backpack. He then spilled paint on Freud's statue and stepped on the skateboard to leave.
A New York police spokesman said they did not intend to release the surveillance video.
Screenshot of the report
From the unveiling of the statue of Freud to the splash of paint, it took less than 3 days.
On September 30, local time, the statues of Three famous blacks, George Freud, John Lewis and Breonna Taylor, were unveiled in Union Square in Manhattan, New York.
On May 25, 2020, George Floyd was crushed to death by a white police officer, Chauvin, on the streets of Minneapolis. The incident ignited the anger of the American people, and a long and large-scale wave of opposition to police violence and protests against racial discrimination broke out across the United States.
John Lewis, the leader of the well-known black civil rights movement in the United States and a member of the Democratic Congress, co-organized the "March to Washington" march with Martin Luther King, Jr. and others, which was called the "conscience" of the US Congress by the American people. On July 17 last year, Lewis died of illness.
Brenna Taylor's plight was similar to Freud's. In March last year, three white police officers kicked open Brenna Taylor's house without a search warrant and clashed with Taylor's boyfriend. Taylor, who was still asleep at the time, was shot eight times and was mistakenly killed by the police, triggering a wave of protests.
From left to right, George Freud, John Lewis and Brenna Taylor
According to Chris Carnabucci, the author of the three statues, the art exhibition event, titled SEE INJUSTICE, aims to "raise awareness of racism and corrective action."
"Art creates an environment of civil discourse in which we can discuss our differences and perhaps even have some understanding of each other's points of view." Kanabsi said at the unveiling of the statue.
It is reported that the three statues will be on public display in Union Square for a month. However, within 3 days of the display, the statue of Freud was brutally murdered, but the statues of John Lewis and Brenna Taylor were not destroyed.
Unveiling of the statue of George Freud
It is worth mentioning that this is the second time that a statue of Freud has been splashed with paint.
According to the New York Post, on June 19 this year, the statue of Floyd was unveiled at a location on Flatbush Street in Brooklyn. But 5 days later, the statue was painted black and labeled with the logo of the white supremacist group Patriot Front.
In June, the statue of Floyd was splashed with paint
At present, the suspect who threw paint on Floyd has not yet been arrested, and the cleaning of Floyd's statue is also underway.
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