Mecklenburg County plans to protect vandalized Confederate monument (NC)

BY JONATHAN MCFADDEN
AUGUST 9, 2015

... The monument was unveiled in 1929 during the 39th reunion of the United Confederate Veterans ... The monument’s inscription hails Confederate soldiers for “preserving the Anglo-Saxon civilization of the South.”

Charlotte-Mecklenburg police say someone vandalized the monument early last week, spray painting on top of an inscription the names of eight of nine victims killed in the June mass shootings at a historic black church in Charleston. Three weeks earlier, someone smeared the monument with liquid cement.

The county has contracted a private firm to clean it both times – the first cleaning cost $370 and the second $380 ...

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