The George Floyd memorial statue in Union Square was vandalized by a skateboarder who sprayed it with silver paint on Sunday morning, cops said.
Police obtained video of the vandal hiding behind a nearby statue of the late John Lewis and playing with something in his backpack around 10 a.m., a police spokesperson said.
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The footage then shows him taking off on his skateboard while throwing paint on Floyd’s bust, the spokesperson said. Police do not intend to release the video, he said.
A photo posted to Twitter shows what appears to be silver paint splattered on the statue which was also disfigured days after its first unveiling on Juneteenth in East Flatbush, Brooklyn.
The vandalized George Floyd memorial in New York (Hakim Gibson)
The statue was recently moved to Manhattan Park.
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Nearby statues of Lewis and Breonna Taylor, the 26-year-old black woman who was shot and killed by police in Louisville, Ky., Last year, were not affected.
In June, Floyd’s statue was smeared with black paint and labeled with the phrase “Patriot Front” – a white nationalist hate group.
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