BALTIMORE — Baltimore protesters pulled down a statue of Christopher Columbus and threw it into the city's Inner Harbor on Saturday night.
Protesters mobilized by the death of George Floyd at the hands of police have called for the removal of statues of Columbus, Confederate figures and others. They say the Italian explorer is responsible for the genocide and exploitation of native peoples in the Americas. A spokesman for Baltimore Mayor Bernard C. “Jack” Young told The Sun the toppling of the statue is a part of a national and global reexamination over monuments “that may represent different things to different people.”
Cmon defacing/destroying status is making the people who are doing it look uncivilized & you get a charge+fine. The movement has POWER to address removal w/city leaders in a legal & professional manner! This just gives a certain leader the ability to imprison minorities.
Stopped going to Baltimore. It’s a cesspool. That city will not get a cent of my money
Got to love those who pollute our waters while screaming climate change is real........
Put those Communist Democrats in jail!!!!
Stupid people. Hope they find them and they all get 10 years.
No one mentioned the NATIVE'S THAT TRUELY OWN AMERICA
So what he never set foot in North America. In fact she didn’t discover anything because people were already living there
How many black children did the kill today?
Where were the police? So lawlessness is ok.
Teach followers and protesters about changing frequencies. We will all benefit. ❤️
They should be arrested and jailed!!
I thought Donald Trump had stopped all vadalism?
Some of the statue hate was a little hard to understand but this one deserved to go.
Instead of littering, couldn't they have thrown it in a dumpster?
We look forward to their arrests.
I hope these criminals get a long sentence in prison.
Just another body thrown in the Inner Harbor. What’s the big deal?
'Protesters.' Thats what you call people that destroy public property?
3 weeks in a row a child under 10 was shot in Chicago and double digit murders. And you morons are more concerned about a statue. Never seen a statue kill an innocent child. Admit real problem...not a statue
That really did a lot.. what did that prove? Violence ?
Disgusting leftists
They're Hong Kong police of Joe Biden.
Good
Did you hear Russians are paying a bounty for the Taliban to kill American soldiers and Trump to this day has had no response? Why don't we focus on what matters?
Arrest them!
Good cuz columbus is just a colonizer and didnt discover anything
Mobs...
Conservatives should remember what Ronald Reagan said about Baltimore when that Columbus statue was unveiled: “You haven't been afraid...to chart a new course & to change the future. You weren't satisfied to sit & wait or to be put off by those who kept discouraging.” ANewCourse
They’re all like Beavis and Butthead now—breaking and destroying stuff for the sake of...breaking and destroying stuff...🙄
statue looks like Regan .
To be fair, Columbus was truly awful to the native Americans. Also, if the MAGA mistook that statue as a tribute to a lesbian science teacher, they’d be perfectly fine was as the crazy Christians they are in tearing it down.
I can see removing a couple of statues I can see protesting but what’s going now is criminal and destroying property it’s time to start locking people up they’ve been burning and tearing up stuff for weeks it’s time to knock off the nonsense and get back to what’s at hand
He was a despicable being.
There are a lot of Italian Americans I would rather see a statue of besides Chris Columbus.
BALTIMORE — Baltimore protesters with the help of NBC NEWS CREW pulled down a statue of Christopher Columbus and threw it into the city's Inner Harbor on Saturday night.
Leave it there and then create under the Harbor tours and let ppl go see it underwater like an attraction 🤷🏾♀️
Baltimore's mayor refers to this as a 'reexamination.' Because mainstream Democrat politicians now have adopted the mindset of vandals.
Can not wait till they are rounded up and get 10 years.
gotta love Baltimore 🔥
Barbarians and you should condemn them, not prise. People should know past and history of the mankind. You cannot demolish Rom colloseum because slaves were fighting to death in there... It is really sad that mainstream media takes a side of barbarians and not trying to explain
The statue thought it was in the Pacific Ocean, just sayin.
Glorious.
And what do we have against CC ?
hope they are found and put in jail for 10 years lmafo.
Trump's best chance:
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Not “protesters” NBC. 🤷🏻♂️ 🇺🇸🦅⚓️
Like the Boston Tea Party except a statue. 👍🏾
Good...that's the best place for the murderous 🍑 holes statue.
NBC likes protestors and communism
Aren't the police supposed to protect us from vandalism?
Someone tell trump it was the Vikings who were the first white folks to step onto American soil.
“Criminals”
They don’t even know if it weren’t for Columbus they would not be living here. He was an EXPLORER
Ridiculous
Just another capitalist out for personal gain and power at the expense of anyone standing in his way. No wonder Republicans pay tribute to him. VoteOkaloosa
I'm still waiting for them to band the word nigger Double standard much Removing statues cause they were slave owners in history but using a word that's the definition of slavering in history Y'all need help Democrat we see y'all causing division for votes yeah you JoeBiden
You should give yourselves a round of applause.... propagandists.
Ten years minimum!!
They're not 'protesters'. 😡😡😡 But then again, you're not journalists. JournalismIsDead
Those are NOT 'Protesters'!
Take that racism.
Nothing to do with Floyd protests. These are probably mostly white anarchists that have stolen the narrative from the legitimate protests to riot and destroy. Pretty sure the Floyd family don’t want all this destruction laid at the feet of their family.
Columbus lived less than 12 years after the sins he is accused, indebted to history power and financiers for a risky visionary enterprise in those times, after breaking down a statue sins of those who have thrived the fruits a lifetime are amended and make them better people ?
“Every book has been rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street and building has been renamed, every date has been altered.” George Orwell in his dystopian novel “1984”. Welcome to totalitarianism.
when does the Mayflower leave for the return trip, it would be a great act of hypocrisy to stay there ?
The native americans missed that chance.
All worthless human garbage! WGF
Are you also going to bring down the statue of Karl Marx?
And NBC NotNews cheers them on. Despicable
Chaos Maker: George Soros to Germany's Bild 2014: 'I am going to topple the United States by funding black hate groups. We are going to put them in a mind trap and make them blame the whites. The black community is the easiest to manipulate.'
Take them all down, Columbus does not represent American values.
You mean they did that while realDonaldTrump was 40 miles away puffing out his chest about not allowing it? What a carnival barker that asswipe is.
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BLACK LIVES MATTER, no, ALL LIVES MATTER. We the people are all deeply impressed by the size of the protesters crowds and their endurance. BUT WE WILL NEVER, NEVER CONDONE VIOLENCE AND/OR CRIMINAL ACTIVITY, AND WE WANT THE CRIMINALs IDed, ARRESTED, AND PROSECUTED!
'ThOsE lAwLeSs ThUgS dOn'T cArE aBoUt HiStOrY'
Why was Christopher Columbus ever given undue credit to begin with ?
If it wasn’t for Columbus the USA might all be speaking Chinese now
.SpeakerPelosi renounce your racist father! BLM Pelosi's Father Dedicated Statue Of Robert E. Lee
These protesters are like children who don't know when to stop.
So Thanksgiving is a fairytale?😭😭😭😭😭
And shame on NBCnews for not condemning all these acts of destruction and being hand in hand with the terrorist mobs to serve their Democratic master not knowing they are partnering with out side terrorist to disseminate America history and identity.
wooooooooo!!!!!
This gives me a sinking feeling.
The mayor and the governor should be held accountable for such an act and face charges for allowing mobs and criminals to rule the street.. What they have their jobs then.. Shame on them..
Classy
They should have gone to Chicago and stoped the murder of a little girl
Saving black lives one statue at a time
And you called Trumps speech divisive.....who is really dividing the country.
Cortez was the invader Columbus just an explorer/ map maker
Baltimore rioters
yay
Vandals, criminals, anarchists. There are better words to describe the persons committing crimes.
leave it there.. mark it with a buoy and make that the new monument.. marking in history BLM! History in the making right there!
hey, lets cut to the chase, storm the museums and art galleries and fire all the library's
Those rioters, not protesters, are a bunch of lawless thugs. They need to be i jail!
Find those idiots and make them go in the inner harbor and retrieve the statue.
Pathetic
Idk why they want all these statues taken down
Yeah, take that racism. 🤟
Good
WHY? Why is the government allowing this to happen? Because Blacks are doing it and NOBODY can say anything against the Blacks. Politically correctness. F... that lock these anarchists up, stop them, NOW. This bullshit has to stop.
disgusting !
That will show him!!
Cities have become completely out of control, mayors need to get this under control
And just like that, history never happened. Simpletons.
Stop referring to vandals and criminals as simple protesters please.
I do care I don't think these people should be taking these statues down. It's still against the law and they should be prosecuted it's called vandalism. How would they like if someone went to their home and start vandalizing their stuff they wouldn't
We're trying to get Biden elected and the crazy torch and pitchfork mob ain't helping. Stop this shit.
Sadly, the Inner Harbor in Baltimore has become a toilet, so I’m sure nobody will notice.
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Democrat thugs.
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