2020.06.19. ST. JUNIPERO SERRA
A monument to St. Junipero Serra was toppled in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park. The statue was pulled down by rope after it was doused with red paint.
2020.06.19. Memorial to confederate soldiers & sailors
Two statues that sat on the larger structure of the monument were toppled by protestors on Juneteenth. They were dragged through the streets. One was hung from a lamppost and the other was later carried away by police on a golf cart. On June 20, 2020 the rest of the monument was removed by the city.
2020.06.16 Juan de Onate, Alcade, New Mexico USA
Defaced 1: Foot was chopped off in 1997 and a note was left behind saying "fair is fair." but later recast and reattached by the original artist - cost $10,000. Defaced 2: In 2017 the statue's foot was painted red and a note was left saying "Remember 1680." Removal: On the date of it's removal another removal protest was occuring in Albuquerque, NM at a second statue of Onate (a protestor was shot there).
2020.06.20 Women of the Confederacy
The statue was removed by the city of Raleigh by order of the Governor on June 6, 2020. The statue was previously defaced with “Black Lives Matter” in 2015 a few weeks after the deadly shooting of nine Black Americans at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina.
2020.07.04 Christopher Columbus Statue
The statue was beheaded by protesters on 2020.07.03. After city council voted for the statue to remain, the head was re-attached on 2020.12.02.
2020.07.23 St. Junipero Serra Ventura, California USA
The bronze statue was removed and relocated to Mission San Buenaventura.
2020.06.22 Andrew Jackson Statue
Defaced July 4, 2015 with BLM and Justice for D tags. Defaced June 30, 2015 when someone adorned the monument with a Native American model head. Defaced with the phrase "Slave Owner" and red paint on June 22, 2020 and again the next day with a remembrance for those lost in the Trail of Tears. Most recently, it was given a pumpkin head in October 26, 2020.
2020.10.12 The Soldiers Monument Obelisk
On 2020.10.12 at the conclusion of a three-day occupation of Santa Fe Plaza, activists ultimately toppled the obelisk after defacing it with red handprints and spray-painted messages. Several arrests by police were made in the aftermath of the toppling. The City of Santa Fe has convened multiple times to decide whether to replace the monument with a different monument, a public art commission, or leave the Plaza empty. Organizers from CHART (Culture, History, Art, Reconciliation, Truth) are actively discussing with community members how to proceed.
The memorial was first defaced in 1974 by an anonymous activist who chiseled off the word “savage” describing local “Indians.”