### Report on the Repeated Intentional Damages to the Little Mermaid Statue in Copenhagen

#### Introduction
The Little Mermaid statue in Copenhagen, Denmark, is one of the most iconic and visited landmarks in the country.

Created by sculptor Edvard Eriksen and unveiled in 1913, the statue has been a symbol of Copenhagen and Danish culture.

However, over the years, it has faced numerous incidents of intentional damage, reflecting various social, political, and cultural tensions.

This report details the significant cases of vandalism and damage to the statue, including the nature of the damage, the perpetrators, and the stories behind each incident.

#### Incident 1: Decapitation (1964)
- **Date**: April 24, 1964
- **Damage**: The statue's head was sawn off and stolen.

- **Perpetrators**: Unknown individuals, believed to be students from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts.

### Report on the Repeated Intentional Damages to the Little Mermaid Statue in Copenhagen

#### Introduction
The Little Mermaid statue in Copenhagen, Denmark, is one of the most iconic and visited landmarks in the country.

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Content: A man tries to destroy a statue by a pedophile artist.
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A man climbed onto the front of the BBC headquarters in central London on Wednesday with a hammer to use to smash a statue of controversial sculptor Eric Gill.
BBC staff said they heard the man screaming over the sculptor's record of child sexual abuse.
Gill was one of the most prominent British artists and sculptors of the early 20th century until his death in 1940.
But his memoirs, published decades after his death, revealed that he sexually assaulted his daughters and his family dog.
The Prospero and Ariel statue (the protagonists of William Shakespeare ’ s The Storm), sculpted by Gill, has been installed on the facade of the BBC headquarters since 1933, and in recent years there have been several campaigns to remove the statue because of its owner ’ s personality.
Police were called to the scene, where officers managed to drop the man off and arrest him about four hours after the scene began.
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Created by sculptor Edvard Eriksen and unveiled in 1913, the statue has been a symbol of Copenhagen and Danish culture.

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Content: Vandals abused the great Armenians in Jermuk
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Due to the growing popularity of Armenia, Russian tourists this year began to increasingly advertise its attractions, in particular, the small resort town of Jermuk, where in the Soviet years was a popular balneological health resort.
Thanks to mineral springs in Jermuk came to be treated from all over the USSR.
Doubts that the city could regain its former glory began to appear after this kind of reviews on tourist sites: "Disappointment is complete!
I don't recommend it!
The symbol of the city of Jermuk in a depressing state, is a statue of cheap iron, painted with graffiti by teenagers, dilapidated by time.
And the glade on which the statue is located is dotted with broken glass, a lot of debris around.
Very sad to see.
Nothing but sadness!
I do not recommend it! "
Tourists are surprised by the "post-apocalyptic" state of the giant Sports Palace with panoramic glazing, and other objects turned into faceless abandoned ruins.
But all these are trifles in comparison with the "recall" of the doctor of biological sciences, Professor Samvel Pipoyan, who visited the central park of Jermuk and saw the busts of the great Armenians: Komitas, Sevak, Tumanyan, Aram Khachaturian, Martiros Saryan and dozens of others attacked by vandals.
In one of the social networks, the professor wrote: “Two or three years ago, these busts were stained in various unpleasant colors, but they could still be saved.
Now the situation is terrible.
Almost all the busts are either broken or desecrated...
It is painful to see how much vandalism has developed in us, neglect of art and science, that such magnificent works are trampled not only by ordinary citizens, but also neglected by state and public services.
Can't the Jermuk authorities see this?
We are losing our history and respect for it, especially among young people whose main activity is to leave inscriptions on the busts or on the walls adjacent to them, "We were here."
The vandalism of Armenian nationalists has long been known.
They have been operating in the occupied territories of Azerbaijan for 30 years, where hundreds of sites, including most of the mosques, shrines and cemeteries of ethnic Azerbaijanis, were looted, vandalized, desecrated and destroyed under Armenian control.
They destroyed the Azerbaijani heritage in the capital of Armenia.
But the destruction of their own cultural heritage on such a scale is openly talked about for the first time.
Who hasn ’ t caught the vandals?
Komitas
The future composer, the founder of the classical Armenian tradition was born in the Turkish city of Kutahya.
His name was Soghomon Soghomonyan.
In 1881, Catholicos Gevorg IV ordered to bring him an orphan boy to study at the Echmiadzin Theological Seminary.
Of all the candidates, Soghomon was chosen.
But when the Catalyst spoke to him, he said, “I don ’ t speak Armenian, if you like, I ’ ll sing. ”
After completing his studies at the seminary, Soghomon assumed the priesthood and the church name Komitas.
He later studied in Berlin, performed in Paris, but in 1910 the Catalyst believed that Komitas used church music for "wrong purposes."
Then the composer gave up the church title and went to Constantinople, where he created a choir, gave lectures and reports at international conferences, conducted.
However, in Constantinople, the composer encountered conservative Armenian clergymen, who reported on him to the Turkish police.
All this affected the health of Komitas, plunging him into a severe depression.
The composer was placed in a Turkish hospital, and a few years later transferred to a Paris psychiatric hospital.
He spent more than 20 years in a hospital bed and died in 1935.
Until now, researchers are debating whether Komitas had schizophrenia, which is not treated, or treatable post-traumatic disorder.
A year after his death, Komitas ’ s ashes were transferred to Armenia, but most of his manuscripts were lost.
But the Church changed the attitude towards the composer, stating that “the Armenian people in the song of Komitas found and recognized their soul, their spiritual self.
Ruben Sevak
The future poet, prose writer and translator Ruben Chilinkiryan was born in the Turkish city of Silivri and graduated from the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Lausanne.
He was married to a German woman.
He was fluent in French.
He took the pseudonym Sevak - black-eyed.
He was the author of the "Red Book", devoted to the disasters of Armenians and socio-philosophical problems, as well as a series of short stories "Pages torn from the diary of a doctor".
Hovhannes Tumanyan
The name of Hovhannes Tumanyan is associated with the flowering and formation of Armenian literature.
He was friends with the founder of symbolism Valery Bryusov, Konstantin Balmont, Sergei Gorodetsky.
Many of his works are recognized as masterpieces of Armenian literature and have been translated into forty languages of the world.
Aram Khachaturian
Composer and conductor Aram Khachaturian is called one of the pillars of the Armenian and Soviet composer school.
He was born in Georgia.
He taught in Gnesinka.
"Dance with sabers", as well as music for the ballets "Gayane", "Spartacus" and "Masquerade" brought him worldwide fame.
Khachaturian was the author of three symphonies, six concerts, works of vocal, choral, instrumental music, music for films and theatrical productions, as well as the anthem of the Armenian SSR.
Martiros Sarian
The future artist was born in Nakhichevan-on-Don, where at one time Catherine II resettled Armenians from the Crimea.
(Now it is one of the districts of Rostov-on-Don).
In 1910-1913 he traveled to Turkey, Egypt and Iran.
Studied in Moscow.
The artist ’ s work played a leading role in the formation of the national school of Armenian Soviet painting.
What all these people after their death angered the vandals, remains a mystery.
But, as you can see, for respectable representatives of the city authorities, the memory of the great Armenians means little.
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Content: In Bashkiria vandals ruined the sculptures in the ice town under construction
In Mizhgirya vandals ruined the ice town under construction.
This was told by the mayor of the city Vyacheslav Kalugin.
Unknown people broke the ear of one sculpture, and others doused green.
The head of the city administration said that the police are looking for hooligans.
The police are trying to identify the bullies in order to bring them to justice.
There are less than two weeks left until the New Year, and the creation of any ice sculpture is quite a time-consuming process.
I do not want the atmosphere of the holiday to be in jeopardy again.
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Content: In Chelyabinsk, a local resident desecrated a memorial to soldiers-internationalists.
This was reported to journalists by the police.
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The monument is located in the Leninsky district of the city.
The suspect put various inscriptions on the amphibious assault vehicle.
The guards detained him.
Now a criminal case has been opened against the citizen.
For vandalism, he faces up to three months in prison.

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The police are looking for vandals, tore off the head of the sculpture of the eagle on the historic house in St. Petersburg
The house of Buxgevden on Kuibyshev Street was damaged
The police are looking for vandals, tore off the head of the sculpture of the eagle on the historic house in St. Petersburg
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In St. Petersburg, the police began checking on the fact of damage to the sculpture of the apartment house Buxgevden on Kuibyshev Street.
On November 24, 2022, it became known that one of the sculptures of the eagle of house 36 had its head torn off.
Information about this appeared on the web.
- Information was revealed about the damage to the sculptural group installed on the house 36 on Kuibyshev Street - one of the two figures of eagles has no head, - said in the main department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in St. Petersburg and the Leningrad region.
It is known that the house, which was attacked by the vandals, is the object of cultural heritage of the Committee for State Control, Use and Protection of Historical and Cultural Monuments as the apartment house of V.A. Buxgevden.
At the moment, the police are checking and looking for vandals.

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Content: In Daugavpils desecrated a monument to Polish soldiers who fought together with the Latvian army in the war for independence, according to the state police.
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Criminal proceedings have been initiated under article 18 of the Criminal Law: crime against property.
Police are also investigating whether there are any signs of hate in the crime.
The representative of the Latvian Polish Union Ryszard Stankevich told the portal Delfi that now the Union is cleaning the monument.
This is not an easy case, because aldehyde paint is used, which is poorly washed.
He believes that the culprits are either hooligans or people who glorify the Russian regime.
In 1920, Latgale was under the Red Army, it was liberated by the Latvian Army, and it was helped, among other things, by the Poles.
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Content: At the end of October last year, a man surnamed Chen used an art knife to scratch the gate of the Hsinchu City Cheng Huang Temple with an X symbol, causing damage to the painted works of the gate.
Since Chen Nan confessed to all the crimes, and at the same time actively reached a mediation with Hsinchu City God Temple, and took partial payment of compensation, the Hsinchu District Court finally sentenced him to three months in prison, which can be easily punished.
In late October last year, Chen Nan went to Hsinchu Du Cheng Huang Temple, a Grade 3 historical site, to draw a fork. The temple staff immediately reported to the police the next day after the discovery. After the police checked the video footage, Chen Nan was found and seized an art knife.
After investigating the case, the prosecutor filed an indictment against Chen Nan for violating the Cultural Property Preservation Law. After hearing the case, the Hsinchu District Court held that Chen Nan had scrawled the gate of the Chenghuang Temple, a historical monument in Hsinchu, and had destroyed part of the monument. And actively reached a mediation with Hsinchu City God Temple, and agreed to pay compensation in installments.
Considering Chen Nan ’ s personal situation, the Hsinchu District Court was sentenced to three months ’ imprisonment for one of the crimes of destroying and damaging monuments in accordance with Article 103, Paragraph 1, Paragraph 2, of the Cultural Assets Preservation Act.
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Content: “Stole two sabers and a gun ”: Vandals disfigured the monument in the center of Krasnodar
Police are looking for vandals who damaged the monument “Shooting Corner ” in Krasnodar.
Vandals damaged the monument "Shooting angle".
It is located on the Vsesvyatskoe cemetery in the center of Krasnodar.
Parts of the memorial were torn off, two bronze sabers and a rifle were stolen.
"An unidentified person, being on the territory of the Vsesvyatsky cemetery (intersection of Aerodromnaya Street and Babushkina Street), by cutting and damaging fastening tools, committed theft of elements of the pedestal" Weapons ", - reported in the press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia in Krasnodar.
Now the police are doing everything possible to find out who caused the damage to the memorial and took away part of the structure.
Everything happened at the intersection of Aerodromnaya and Babushkina streets, cameras are everywhere.
Operators will have to identify and detain the vandal.
The police of Krasnodar opened a criminal case.
“On this fact, a criminal case has been initiated on the grounds of the elements of the crime provided for in part.
1, Art. 214 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (vandalism).
Investigative actions and operational-search measures aimed at establishing the identity and detention of the offender are being carried out, ” the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia in Krasnodar said.
The damaged monumental complex faces arrest for up to three months.
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BALTIMORE -- A staff stolen from a Harriet Tubman statue on display at an Annapolis museum has been returned after it was taken nearly a month ago.

No one knows if the staff was the target of a mindless attack or a crime of racist aggression. They're just glad they got it back.

"It's just mind-boggling to me," visitor Rich Adams said.

The staff, also known as a veve, now sits in its rightful place.

"I was surprised that on this street in front of a museum that someone would be so brazen to vandalize a statue—just in general," Adams said.

The theft took place in December. That's when vandals snatched the staff from the hands of the statue in front of the Banneker-Douglas Museum in Annapolis.

"When we discovered that the statue was vandalized, we were collectively devastated," Canel Johnson, the executive director of the Banneker-Douglas Museum, said.

It's a disturbing sign more than a century later that the iconic abolitionist is still facing attacks—even in the form of a statue.

"The statue was only here at the Banneker-Douglass Museum for a few months before it was vandalized," Johnson said.

It was on loan to the museum by the Goya Contemporary Gallery in Baltimore.

"With the help of the Annapolis police, the community at large, we were able to recover the veve and return it to its original glory," Johnson said.

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Content: Police are looking for vandals who damaged the banner on the Alley of memory in Barnaul
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The police began checking because of damage to banners on the Alley of memory to paratroopers of the 6th company of the 104th Guards Parachute Regiment.
According to the press service of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia in the Altai Territory, the townspeople reported this to the duty unit of the police department for the Leninsky Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia in Barnaul.
Now the police are conducting an inspection aimed at identifying persons who may have damaged the commemorative banners.
Police officers are looking for possible eyewitnesses and witnesses of the incident, establish all the circumstances.
Recall that the damage to the banners became known today, January 30.
In social networks, one of the townspeople said that she was walking along the alley and noticed the destroyed signs.
At least three of them were damaged.
Users of social networks in the comments noted that the alley has video surveillance cameras, with which you can track vandals.
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Content: At 8: 00 a.m. on the 16th, a man surnamed Kan suddenly broke in and whispered to the stone monument, then began to smash the incense and candles on the sacred table. He also picked up items and smashed the stone monument, causing a mess at the scene. When he was arrested, he said, "These are all cults."
After receiving the report, the Shulin Police Bureau checked the surveillance device and grasped the identity of the suspect. It was found that in just four days from 16 to 19, Kan Nan committed six damage cases in Shulin and two damage cases in the Three Gorges area. After the trial, the case was transferred to the New Taipei District Attorney's Office for investigation under the Cultural Assets Protection Act and the Crimes of Destruction.
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Content: A monument to former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in her hometown of Grantham has been vandalized.
This was reported on October 24 by Express.
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The incident occurred on October 22.
Unknown paint wrote on the pedestal "Down with Tory".
The monument, which was erected in May near the place where Thatcher grew up, was attacked for the third time.
Just two hours after the opening, the monument was pelted with eggs.
The violator was fined.
In the second case, the monument was stained with pink paint.
Lincolnshire Police are investigating "criminal damage" to the monument.
Surveillance cameras installed around the monument are being checked.
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Content: A monument to the third President of the United States Thomas Jefferson in Virginia was attacked by vandals.
It is reported by the American edition of The Cavalier Daily.
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On the morning of April 13, offensive slogans appeared on the monument.
Unknown red paint wrote on the pedestal “racist and rapist ”.
The sculpture is located on the territory of the University of Virginia, founded by Jefferson in Charlottesville in 1819.
Moreover, the former American president designed the university campus, a World Heritage Site.
Vandals, apparently, wanted to remind that Jefferson was a slave owner, and the labor of slaves was used in the construction of the educational institution.
In addition, there is a version that he abused a slave named Sally Hemings, the newspaper notes.
Thomas Jefferson was President of the United States from 1801 to 1809.
He is one of the founding fathers of the American state and the author of the Declaration of Independence of 1776.
In December 2017, vandals desecrated a monument to Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest in Nashville, Tennessee.
They doused the equestrian statue with pink paint.

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Content: In Jerusalem, a wave of vandalism against Christian shrines is growing
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On the day of the Presentation, a Jewish extremist broke into a Franciscan church to smash a statue of Christ, the fifth such incident in Jerusalem in recent weeks.
Israeli police arrested an American tourist suspected of vandalizing a statue of Christ in a chapel in the Old City of Jerusalem on Thursday, February 2.
The guardian of the church, Majid al-Rishq, explained that this Jew, armed with a hammer, “hit the statue of Christ. ”
Witnesses say the man also claimed after the act of vandalism that he was “hostile to idols ” — Christian beliefs that some radical Jews believe are desecrating the holy city of Jerusalem.
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The horn of the pioneer again broke vandals in the park on Vagonka in Nizhny Tagil
17 June 2023, 09: 20
Photo: "Incident Nizhny Tagil" VKontakte
Once again, the statue of the pioneer became a victim of vandals in Nizhny Tagil.
In Pioneer Square on the Vagonka unknown again broke the horn.
In a photo taken by a subscriber of the public "Incident Nizhny Tagil" VKontakte, at the horn, which is in the hand of the statue, a fragment is broken.
Earlier, the press service of the city hall reported that this thin element is located approximately at a height of about three meters from the ground, but this does not stop vandals.
The monument has to be restored.
Photo: "Incident Nizhny Tagil" VKontakte
Recall that the vandals broke the statue of the pioneer in December 2021.
The monument was restored by the restorer Vladimir Breketov.
Contractors are hired to repair structures and decorative elements located in public places.
For this, additional funds are sought from the budget of Nizhny Tagil.

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Korean War Monument at Buffalo Naval and Military park vandalized

"This hurts," says US Navy vet when viewing the spray-painted memorial.

BUFFALO, N.Y. — As they prepare for a busy weekend of  Memorial Day activities, the staff at the Buffalo Naval and Military Park found itself suddenly having to arrange for repairs to the Korean War Monument, which was damaged by vandals in the overnight hours between Sunday and Monday.

The damage was discovered by volunteer groundskeepers when they arrived for work on Monday morning.

The vandalism involved the spray painting of the rifle of the soldier depicted on the monument's face, and tagging of other parts of the monument and the sidewalk leading up to it.

Among those the most upset was the Buffalo police officer who showed up to take the report, and who used terms like disgusting and sickening to describe what he saw.

"He (the police officer) is a veteran," explained the park's President and CEO Paul Marzello. "This probably means a lot more to someone like him who has served the country...to see monuments defaced in this way, it's very upsetting."

It was upsetting as well to Charles Andrews, who volunteers at the museum and served 20 years aboard submarines in the US Navy.

"It really hurts," said Andrews. "Our monuments are here for the purpose of everyone having something to remember. Something valuable to remember."

"We'll be contacting a stone supplier to find out what's the best way to remove (the graffiti) whether it's chemically, sandblasting whatever and we'll take direction from them," said Marzello.  "Sadly, there are individuals who just don't know how to pay respect...whether it's memorial ground or other people's personal property."

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The statue of Phil Lynott on Cork Street, Dublin is being damaged by plectrums left by fans, Journal.ie reports.

Dublin City Council has announced that it will cost €1,875 to have the welds repaired.

Paying homage to the Thin Lizzy star is now causing damage to the statue. Fans and artists alike have left plectrums at the statue to honour the Thin Lizzy vocalist since 2005.

The statue, dedicated to Phil Lynott, is being damaged by plectrums being pushed behind the strings of the bass guitar he holds. There will be a regular removal of the plectrums from the statue in order to protect it.

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Famous fans have also left their tribute to the star. Alice in Chains vocalist William Duvall left a plectrum  in 2019 after posing for pictures.

This is not the first time the statue has needed repairs, as it was knocked over and broken in 2013 (see the Irish Times report here).

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Content: Last week, on January 5, a Buddha statue was stolen from a private house in Skriveri.
The attackers broke the glass and penetrated inside, according to the State Police.
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The man also did not have a driver ’ s license.
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Content: Society24 January 2022 15: 01
In Volgograd, vandals tore off the bronze part at the memorial sign to Mira Street
Granite stele stands next to the main post office building
The memorial sign is dedicated to the anniversary of the opening of Mira Street
Photo: Ekaterina SIMOKHINA
In Volgograd, not a month goes by that the vandals do not damage or break anything.
The hands of unknown pests reached the granite stele in the center of the city.
Someone damaged a memorial sign near the main post office building, installed for the anniversary of Mira Street.
The stele was stripped of a bronze ornament, which was located below the coat of arms.
About it in social networks wrote Volgograd social activist Sergei Ostrovsky.
- Bronze jewelry located below the coat of arms, apparently torn off, for what?
Not understanding a healthy mind.
I did not check the information, perhaps it was taken for restoration, - wrote the Volgograd.
The restoration of the memorial sign was not planned.
But now it will have to be restored.
As told “KP-Volgograd ” in the mayor ’ s office, the administration of the Central district is engaged in the issue of eliminating damage.
"Currently, the mechanism and timing of the restoration of the facility are determined," the city administration noted.
We will remind, in November last year, the Volgograd desecrated a memorial sign installed in memory of the victims of the Holocaust.
In December, in the Krasnooktyabrsky district, two men sawed a monument to the sailors of the Volga-Caspian flotilla.
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Content: Manhattan man arrested in vandalism of George Floyd statue

An arrest has been made in the vandalism of a George Floyd statue in New York City. Video of the incident in the city's Union Square Park shows a suspect with a skateboard throwing gray paint onto the statue earlier this month, CBS New York reported.

The New York Police Department released several videos of the suspect, including one of him leaving the subway, skateboard in hand. NYPD Crime Stoppers offered a reward up to $3,500.

On Monday, officers arrested Micah Beals, a 37-year-old from Manhattan. He has been charged with criminal mischief, police told CBS News. The investigation is ongoing and no further details were provided.

The wood and bronze statue of Floyd was vandalized 48 hours after it was installed in Union Square, Lindsay Eshelman, co-founder of the group Confront Art, told CBS New York.

The art group is responsible for the statue, which is part of the "SeeInJustice" exhibition that also includes statues of John Lewis and Breonna Taylor. The three statues have been shown at various locations across New York City.

Floyd, who was killed by a Minneapolis police officer in May 2020, inspired protests against police brutality and racial injustice across the U.S.

Volunteers helped peel off thick layers of gray-blue paint from the Floyd statue. But this was not the first time it was vandalized.

When the 6-foot bust was previewed in Flatbush, Brooklyn, on Juneteenth, police said four people tied to a local supremacist group vandalized it, CBS New York reported.

The second vandalism in October was disheartening. "The crazy thing is we knew that this could happen," Eshelman said. "It just kind of shows that what we're doing is sparking conversation, it's sparking controversy. That is the mission of art, to evoke emotion. I don't align with this emotion. It's super frustrating, but it shows the dis-unification of America that we live in."

"It's the memory, you know. The memory is being tainted and we want to shed light," Confront Art's Angie Onmars told CBS New York. "We did this out of good intention for the community and it's really sad this is happening." Onmars said it "hurts the Floyd family as well to see the son that they lost, the brother that they lost is being vandalized again."

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#### Incident 1: Decapitation (1964)
- **Date**: April 24, 1964
- **Damage**: The statue's head was sawn off and stolen.

- **Perpetrators**: Unknown individuals, believed to be students from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts.