A statue of George Floyd that was unveiled in New York City on Sept. 30 was vandalized on Sunday. Surveillance footage showed a white male dressed in black pants and a green long-sleeved shirt tossing gray paint from a cup onto the statue in Union Park at approximately 10:15 a.m. The man was riding a skateboard and continued by after vandalizing the statue. New York Police Department (NYPD) hate crimes detectives are investigating. No suspect has been identified or arrested, an NYPD spokesperson told The Epoch Times in an email on Monday. Floyd was killed in Minneapolis, Minnesota in 2020 after resisting arrest. Former police officer Derek Chauvin was convicted of second-degree murder and sentenced to 22.5 years in prison. Floyd’s statue was placed in the New York park alongside busts of late Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.) and Breonna Taylor, who was fatally shot last year by police officers in …
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