Iconoclasts: Always Wear Safety Glasses and a Hard Hat - Statue Toppler Injured In Night Time Anti-Racist Vandalism (Boson Globe) 11 June 2020

Boson MASS --- A protester against police violence and racism was seriously hurt when a statue he was helping to topple fell on his head last night Wednesday, 10 June 2020.

As protesters across the US target Civil War monuments and other sculptures the demonstrators deem to be racist Boson has seen several monument attacks.

Earlier in the week a statue of the anti-Islamic Crusader Catholic Saint Louis IX King of France was beheaded.

Last night they came for William Blackstone who was one of the first English settlers in Massachusetts.  A speaker addressed the crowd standing next to the monument and said,  "He came to live on stolen Native American land.  He did not ask permission from the Wampanoag tribe or any other tribes.  He was New England's first illegal alien."

"Today we are deporting him to Boson Harbour," the speaker yelled to cheers from the crowd.  "He can swim back to England, if he can."


The incident happened on Wednesday night during a Black Lives Matter anti-racism protest. The moment when the beheaded statue gave way to the efforts and fell on the unlucky participant was caught on camera. Other protesters can be heard cheering statue's collapse, apparently oblivious to the fact that one of them was hurt in the process.

A woman standing next to the statue with a sledge hammer quickly realized that the man standing under the monument had been hit directly on the head.  The protester was not wearing any of the standard construction equipment.  No one at the protest wore safety glasses.  Many were in sandals instead of steel toed boots.

While police have been ordered to stand down activists vandalized the monument during the day, covering the obelisk with graffiti and pouring paint on the statues. As night came, an effort was launched to dismantle the four figures. The statues were first decapitated, and then the protesters tried to take them off their bases.

As one of the statues came down, its upper end hit one of the protesters right on the head. The man lost consciousness with a head laceration so deep that his skull could be seen through the wound, eyewitnesses said. Paramedics reportedly took him to hospital in a critical condition, as police intervened to tell the crowd to leave.



The event in Boson is one of many taking place across several nations, where statues associated with racism and colonialism have been vandalized or damaged. Among others, protesters have toppled a statue of Columbus in Minnesota, and a statue of King Leopold II of Belgium in Antwerp, while a statue of Churchill in London was defaced with accusations of racism.

Even Abraham Lincoln, who freed 5,000,000 black slaves after a civil war that claimed 600,000 lives, was daubed with paint for his racist beliefs and not freeing the slaves fast enough.  Lincoln waited until 1863 to free the 'people of color in bondage' as academics at UMass Boson point out.

An elderly man was shouted down as he pleaded that Blackstone was actually a good man who married an Indian woman and spoke some of the native languages and brought peace between the English settlers and the Native American's.  Some say that King Philip's War, the last stand of Massachusetts Indians happened because Blackstone had died and could not mediate.

"We don't need no education," the crowd shouted back.  The statue came down.  There was not time for history lessons.

At the protest Boson City Council President Ema Strickland got on her knees to ask forgiveness for her sins of racism and white privilege and to ask demonstrators to vote for her for mayor in November's election.  

Boson Mayor Welsh, who is an opponent of statue toppling, urged the Federal work safety agency OSHA to investigate the 'anarchists and Antifa' he claims are behind the vandalism. 

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