Statue of Mahatma Gandhi Vandalized During D.C. Riots

Brittany M. Hughes | June 5, 2020
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While rioters desecrating monuments and statues is irritating as a general rule, it’s even worse when those monuments represent the very things that protesters claim to support.

Case in point: a statue of Mahatma Gandhi in D.C. that was vandalized by mobs supposedly taking to the streets to demand racial justice and an end to police brutality.

The statue, which stands outside the Indian Embassy, was spray-painted by vandals this week as unrest spread throughout the city, just one of dozens of cities and towns across the U.S. plagued by civil unrest and violence following the death of a black Minneapolis man at the hands of a white police officer. 
 


"More evidence that violent radicals and run of the mill crazies have hijacked legitimate protests to create anarchy or for their own purposes," Senator Marco Rubio said of the destruction on Thursday.

North Carolina Senator Tom Tillis called the act “disgraceful.”

"Gandhi was a pioneer of peaceful protesting, demonstrating the great change it can bring. Rioting, looting and vandalizing do not bring us together," he said.

Gandhi famously led a non-violent Indian resistance against British colonial rule throughout the early- to mid-1900s.

The statue has since been covered up until it can be restored.

 

 

 

 

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