Rioters Deface 'Glory' Monument to First Black Civil War Regiment

By Nick Arama | 3:45 PM on June 03, 2020

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Did you ever watch the movie “Glory” with Matthew Broderick, Denzel Washington and Morgan Freeman?

If you did you may recall it was about a civil war regiment of black soldiers who fought discrimination in the Union Army as they were also fighting the rebels in the South.

There’s a monument to the regiment, the 54th, in Boston, where the regiment was located. It is beautiful depiction of the first all-volunteer black regiment in the Union Army in bronze.

But if there’s anything that shows how ridiculous this has become, it was that this memorial was defaced as the protests moved through the city.

Rioters Deface 'Glory' Monument to Black Civil War Soldiers in Bostonhttps://t.co/jXLoVziFJX #GeorgeFloyd

— Larry Elder (@larryelder) June 3, 2020

Peaceful protest on #BostonCommon demanding racial justice. Hard to see legitimate protest turn destructive #Shaw54thRegimentMemorial. Conservators on the way to clean the grafitti on all monuments in the #threeparks. @bostonparksdept pic.twitter.com/dGzrVbFZia

— Friends of the Public Garden (@FOPG) June 1, 2020

Other monuments and memorials were also vandalized.

From WCVB:

“A thousand men signed up just after President Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, just think about that,” said Liz Vizza, executive director of Friends of the Public Garden. “These are men who, if they were captured in the south, would be enslaved or murdered. But this cause was so important to them, they signed up to go fight for their freedom.”

Rioters have defaced and vandalized other memorials and monuments in other places across the country, including in Washington, D.C. Antifa, the folks who claim that they are “fighting fascists” damaged a memorial honoring real antifascists, our World War II military men and women including black military members. They also damaged the Lincoln Memorial, the man ended slavery.

After that happened over the weekend, the National Guard was out protecting the memorials on Tuesday with dozens of members at the Lincoln Memorial.

More of what @MarthaRaddatz saw tonight at the Lincoln Memorial. Front line are US Park Police, behind them are National Guard pic.twitter.com/FcLq5Wn60q

— luis martinez (@LMartinezABC) June 3, 2020