Now, weeks after the event, a neighborhood that was already torn over the fate of the Columbus sculpture is awash in debate again as the city decides what to do with the statue and other controversial monuments in the city. The event also signaled yet another example of far-right groups increasing their activism in the Chicago area, experts said. The simmering debate over city monuments came to a head amid the wave of protests that followed the police killing of George Floyd.
The crescendo happened on July 17, , when leftist and other demonstrators tried to pull down the Columbus statue in Grant Park, setting off violent clashes with police. Citing the protests and the failed attempt to bring down the statue, Mayor Lori Lightfoot ordered its removal a week later, along with the Columbus statue in Arrigo Park. A third monument to the Italian explorer was later pulled from its pedestal in the South Chicago neighborhood. The Lightfoot administration also launched an ongoing review of monuments that were flagged for a variety of reasons, like promoting narratives of white supremacy, presenting inaccurate or demeaning representations of Native Americans, and memorializing those linked to racist acts, slavery and genocide.
Witnesses said the event was largely peaceful, and images circulating on social media appear to show only minor skirmishes and arguments. No one was arrested, according to the Chicago Police Department, which witnesses said sent a large presence to keep the peace. But video from a private Proud Boys Telegram channel shared with the Sun-Times also shows a few dozen demonstrators walking down the middle of Polk Street, away from the statue, in broad daylight.
Some are seen hoisting American flags, one of which appears to be emblazoned with a Gadsden rattlesnake, a symbol that dates back to the American Revolution but has been co-opted by the far-right. And one of the marchers is seen wearing a shirt that appears to be associated with the Three Percenters, an anti-government militia movement that also played a role in the riot at the U.
After popping up in photos and videos of the insurrection, he was later arrested in a dustup at a political rally in Schaumburg; the charges were ultimately dropped. Martin Luther King. It ended when a white supremacist intentionally drove into a group of counterprotesters, killing year-old Heather Heyer. Would he have asked the groups to leave the rally if he knew they had ties to the Capitol insurrection?
Kall Vee, a longtime resident of Little Italy, scoffed at that and noted that Onesti and many others pushing for the return of the statue no longer live in the neighborhood. What they are doing is dividing this community and not uniting it. John Catanzara, the president of the Fraternal Order of Police Lodge 7, received an award honoring the officers who guarded the Grant Park Columbus statue during the standoff with activists last year.
In a speech to the crowd, Catanzara reflected upon also being at the park with other police union leaders when city crews removed it. He also showed up at a pro-cop rally in Grant Park shortly after the Columbus statue was removed. That event was the first organized by Ashley Ramos, an ally of Delatorre who also attended the recent Arrigo Park rally. At the same time, she has ingratiated herself with mainstream Republicans. Such opportunities, he added, also serve as fertile ground for indoctrination and recruitment.
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The parade featured dozens of aircraft flying overhead and a gun salute. A parachutist with a giant red-and-yellow Spanish flag attached to his ankle landed on the avenue, drawing cheers from the thousands of spectators.
The law which made Oct. That event heralded centuries of colonization of the Americas by European nations while bringing violence, disease and death to indigenous people. In Spain, the suffering of native populations during that period has not received the same attention or prompted the kind of historical reevaluation as it has, for example, in the United States, where in many places Columbus Day has been paired or replaced with Indigenous Peoples Day to switch the focus of the annual holiday.
Near to where Tuesday's official national day celebrations were held in Madrid is a statue of Columbus atop a pedestal. It is 17 meters 56 feet high. In the U. But it came into sharper focus in the United States after a campaign to remove monuments dedicated to Confederate generals flared into deadly violence in in Charlottesville, Virginia.
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