Abraham Lincoln statue vandalized with paint in Chicago park

For the second time in below two months, a statue devoted to former President Abraham Lincoln statue was defaced in Chicago.

On Thanksgiving, a statue of a younger Abraham Lincoln in Senn Park in Chicago’s Edgewater neighborhood was discovered coated in splotches of purple paint together with the phrases “COLONIZER” and “LAND BACK,” the Chicago Tribune reported.

Based on the outlet, the statue additionally had “Dakota 38” written on it, in reference to the Dakota Sioux members who Lincoln ordered to be executed following the Dakota Struggle of 1862.

Lincoln commuted the sentences of 264 Dakota fighters however sentenced 38 to be hung in Minnesota, which grew to become the biggest mass execution in US historical past.

The statue has resided within the outside park since 1997.

It was chiseled by sculptor Charles Keck, who additionally designed monuments of former Presidents Andrew Jackson and George Washington.

For the second time in below two months, an Abraham Lincoln statue in Chicago has been vandalized.

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The same message was written throughout one other statue of the sixteenth president in Lincoln Park, roughly six miles away from Senn Park, on Oct. 11.

The vandals, who stay unidentified, allegedly wrote, “Dethrone the colonizers,” “Land again!” and “Avenge the Dakota 38.”

The Chicago Tribune mentioned the perpetrators additionally posted the names of the 38 Dakota males with the message “tear down the parable of Lincoln the nice liberator.”

Police haven't made an arrest within the vandalization however are persevering with their investigations.

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The statue in Lincoln Park, referred to as “Abraham Lincoln: The Man,” has been referred to as probably the most vital sculptures of Lincoln from the nineteenth century and was sculpted by Augustus Saint-Gaudens in 1887 — 22 years after Lincoln’s dying.

The Chicago police have but to make any arrests.