BALTIMORE (AP) — Someone painted the words “Black Lives Matter” on a statue honoring Confederate soldiers in Baltimore.
The Baltimore Sun ( http://bsun.md/1JeArnA ) reports the words in yellow paint covered an etched message Monday on the statue that was erected by the Maryland Daughters of the Confederacy in February 1903.
'Black Lives Matter' is painted on a Baltimore statue dedicated to Confederate soldiers http://t.co/vkJj7NzKDg pic.twitter.com/TVNAY4mPMP
— Daily Mail US (@DailyMail) June 23, 2015
Those who live, work and study in the area had mixed reactions to the message being written on the statue, which is across the street from the campus of Maryland Institute College of Art. This statue is one of several such statues devoted to the Confederacy in the city.
A Baltimore statue's message honoring #Confederate soldiers has been written over. #BlackLivesMatter pic.twitter.com/FKqNSpC6ma
— Kevin Rector (@RectorSun) June 22, 2015
The Confederate flag has come under new criticism following last week’s shooting by a white man at a black church in Charleston, South Carolina, that killed nine people. The “Black Lives Matter” message was spray-painted on the stone pedestal of a Confederate statue there.
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