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Columbus besmirched!
Vandal mars Downtown statue
on Columbus Day
Someone spray-painted the Christopher Columbus statue outside Kings County Supreme
Court early Monday. Photo by Kevin Duggan
BY KEVIN DUGGAN
A vandal defaced a statue of controversial
Italian icon and 15th century explorer
Christopher Columbus outside a
Downtown Brooklyn courthouse in the
early hours Monday.
The scoff law spray-painted the
letters “FC” in blue, along with some
squiggly lines across the plaque at
the base of the statue outside Kings
County Supreme Court near Court
Street at around 3:30 am, according
to a spokesman for police.
The vandalism coincided with
a federal holiday dedicated to the
European explorer, which was renamed
“Indigenous People’s Day”
to appease critics who denounced
Columbus for his enslavement of
the natives he encountered during
his travels.
Cops have not made any arrests
and the investigation for felony
criminal mischief remains ongoing,
according to the spokesman.
The city together with the Italian
Historical Society of America
erected the statue in 1971 under
then-mayor John Lindsay, according
to the plaque.
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