The statue was found in a gorge about 50 feet away, with damage to the base and a finger.
“It’s particularly painful that it happened at this time,” said Carvin Eison, a leader of the project that brought a number of Douglass statues to Rochester in 2018 in remembrance of his 200th birthday, the Democrat & Chronicle reported.
Eison told the Democrat & Chronicle that the damage to the Maplewood Park statue is too severe for a repair, but another Douglass will take its place. The damage is under investigation, the paper added.
“This shows that these anarchists have no bounds!” said Trump.
Douglass escaped slavery in Maryland in 1838 and settled in Rochester for about 30 years, the paper said, adding that in his speech Douglass said July 4th’s celebration of liberty and citizenship was offensive to the enslaved population.
“Your high independence only reveals the immeasurable distance between us. The blessings in which you, this day, rejoice, are not enjoyed in common,” he said, according to the Democrat & Chronicle. “This Fourth July is yours, not mine. You may rejoice, I must mourn.”
That was true then, but it is not true now. We can all celebrate July 4th now, as our Constitution envisioned.
No suspects have been named as yet.
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If stupidity/ignorance was a biologic classification an entire new multitudinous species would immediately be granted “creation”…and would encompass the entire left, progressive, liberal spectrum of the prism…
They have virtually no respect for the Founders of this country taught to hate the Constitution and the Bill of Rights.
Only done by Idiots….but we already knew that…..
I am NOT inciting violence at all, and don’t mean to infer any such action….but, just stating the opinion that a couple of .223 rounds in the chest of the mindless leader of such action would put a stop to it right away. I suspect these are not trained and thinking terrorists…only their leaders are.
billybob texas, I totally agree, these punks need a little .223 vaccine to flatten their mental virus !!!!!!