Participants of “festive” protests in the American city of Baltimore (Maryland) threw the monument to Christopher Columbus from a pedestal and threw it into the bay.
A group of aggressive people, shouting anti-racist slogans, threw ropes on a statue in the evening of July 4 against the backdrop of fireworks commemorating Independence Day, threw the figure of Columbus on a pedestal, and then protesters rolled the monument to the bay and threw it into the water.
The Statue of the Navigator, which the “anti-racism fighters” took down, was one of three monuments to Columbus in Baltimore.