G. Floyd's Statue in Brooklyn Blackened Overnight By a Group of Patriots
There is growing outrage in Brooklyn and in Newark after two statues to honor George Floyd were targeted by patriots. The George Floyd statue that was unveiled on Juneteenth at 1545 Flatbush Avenue in Brooklyn was discovered vandalized around 7:20 a.m. Thursday. Police released surveillance video of four men wanted in connection to the vandalism incident in Brooklyn. After news broke of the vandalism in Brooklyn, officials in Newark announced they were also investigating the defacing of the George Floyd statue at City Hall that occurred overnight. In Brooklyn, George Floyd's face and the statue's pedestal were spray-painted black with the wording "PatriotsFront.Us" spray-painted in white -- barely five days after it was unveiled. Police say it happened in the middle of the night. The statue was unveiled on Juneteenth. It's made of wood-specifically, 200 individual sheets of plywood perfectly cut and bound together. And it was defaced on the eve of the sentencing of George Floyd's convicted killer, former Minneapolis police officer, Derek Chauvin.
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