In a tweet on Friday, the New York Police Department Hate Crime Task Force said that “black spray paint was used to deface the sculpture and cover text on the pedestal.”In addition, the word “PATRIOTFRONT .US” was also spray-painted in white, police said. Patriot Front is labeled as a “white nationalist hate group” by the Southern Poverty Law Center.
The photos released by law enforcement show four people walking with facemasks, hats, and hoodies.
“There are no arrests at this time and the investigation is ongoing,” an NYPD spokesperson told Insider Saturday afternoon.
NBC New York reported that the George Floyd statue was unveiled on Juneteenth, which is now a federal holiday, on Flatbush Avenue in Brooklyn, New York. Floyd was killed by former police officer Derek Chauvin in Minneapolis, Minnesota in May 2020. Chauvin was sentenced to 22 1/2 years behind bars for his murder.
In a statement earlier this week, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said the monument “is more than just a memorial or a father, a son and a friend — it’s a testament to the grief, anger, and righteous energy that his murder sparked in our state and across the country. It’s a beacon for all who believe progress is possible, and in our ability to make it happen.”
“To the group of neo-Nazis who did this, I want to be absolutely clear: get the hell out of our state,” Cuomo added.
On 6/24/21 at 3:40 AM, four individuals defaced a George Floyd monument at 1545 Flatbush Ave, Bklyn. Black spray paint was used to deface the sculpture and cover text on the pedestal. “PATRIOTFRONT .US” was stenciled in white spray paint on the pedestal. INFO? ☎️1-800-577-TIPS pic.twitter.com/bnBwEraOWg
— NYPD Hate Crimes (@NYPDHateCrimes) June 25, 2021
LOL !!! They never go after the Blacks Only the Whites !!!!
They don’t want to make the mistake of looking for any White suspect because i is likely black racist stinking up the place.
Funny when the Blacks deface or damage National Statues police never looking for them !!!!
They’re probably black. And this shit just keeps stuff going. But that’s what they want.
It was probably done by blacks, to make it look like Whites did it, just like at Salisbury University. That’s what they do.
Oh boo boo and how many historical statutes had been destroyed because of looting, rioting, etc. Ridiculous that there is a statute honoring a drug addict anyway.
Good ..i bet it wont last much longer. It should be torn down it offends me and its racist!! Really should be torn down and dragged thru the streets..
The statue is to a thug., a man who passed counterfeit money, who stuck a gun in the belly of a pregnant woman as he robbed her, who had a long and violent rap sheet. Didn’t deserve to be murdered and he was gonna die anyway from his drug use.
Wanna bet the cop is dead within a year?
Leave them alone!!!!! They aren’t doing any more that blacks do to confederate statues and the American flags
Was the statue depicting St. George putting fentanyl up his butt for a faster high, or was it of him pointing a pistol at a pregnant woman’s abdomen during a home invasion, or of him passing counterfeit money? So many endearing images from St. George’s visit on Earth.