By Gus Saltonstall
Three people vandalized a Central Park monument earlier this week, police said on Tuesday evening.
The trio spray painted the General William Tecumseh Sherman monument inside of Central Park, which sits on the north side of Grand Army Plaza near East 60th Street, police said. The incident took place Monday about 8:30 p.m.
Sherman was a Union Army General, and his Central Park monument was unveiled in 1903.
Multiple publications reported that the vandalism of the Sherman statue took place after a pro-Palestine protest on the Upper East Side, which included more than two dozen arrests, the vandalism of the World War I 107th Infantry Memorial, also in Central Park, and the burning of an American flag.
“These memorials mean a lot to our city,” Mayor Eric Adams wrote on social media. “To vandalize [them], in some of these actions, these anti-American actions, it bothers me. And I’m just not going to sit back and act like it’s not wrong.”
The suspects wanted in connection with the Sherman monument defacement fled from the statue in an unknown direction. The NYPD is offering a $10,000 award for information that leads to the arrest and conviction of the trio.
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Bear in mind these nominally “pro-Palestinian” protesters despise the whole of Western civilization (which includes America, democracy, and capitalism), so this vandalism should surprise no one.
What purpose does this hyperbole serve? That is such a ridiculous, sweeping—never mind completely inaccurate—condemnation that one would expect to see in the NY Post or some other traitor-supporting rag. Cool it with the nonsense!
Only nonsense is people believing these protests are peaceful. They’re destroying our city and you’re just good with that?
Accusing someone else of hyperbole while claiming a newspaper you disagree with as “traitor-supporting” is the height of hypocrisy.
“traitor-supporting rag”
you keep using that word “hyperbole”…I do not think it means what you think it means…
Hard to blame them. How many countries in that region has the US destroyed? How many hundreds of thousands have we killed?
The great irony is that they’d be the FIRST in line to protest Hamas’ policies (which they have no idea how oppressive or anti-humanity they are)
One of those arrested for the vandalism lives in the Ansonia according to the New York Post.
Since there are no punishments for destruction of property, disobeying a police officer, violent protests, this will all just continue.
There is no peaceful protest in vandalism and hate and intimidating others so THEIR freedom and safety are squelched. Any potentially valid concerns about social justice or humanitarian issues or grievances that one may feel warrant airing, are brutalized and eviscerated when intimidation, bullying, and violence (including that of vandalism) become a ‘means for expressing dissent.’ That is no longer protest, but thuggery and terrorizing. The same way that the violence and hate of the January 6 insurrectionist crossed any line of freedom of expression, into bullying, thuggery, and illegal acts; so does breaking into buildings, preventing people from going about their lives, targeting certain groups for bullying and intimidation, calling for and celebrating violence, and destroying property. Anyone who claims to truly be for peace or humanitarian solutions, must denounce the direction these ‘protests’ have been taking.
A voice of reason and understanding. You are so right.
Agree. My husband was part of the clean-up crew spending hours cleaning up their stupid, useless mess then coming home utterly exhausted. They are squandering any potential support with their inane acts of random public vandalism.