‘Healthy civil disobedience’: City official applauds Columbus statue vandals

By Tim Pearce

Published October 17, 2019 3:12pm ET

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‘Healthy civil disobedience’: City official applauds Columbus statue vandals — A sign reading "stop celebrating genocide" sits at the base of a statue of Christopher Columbus on Monday, Oct. 14, 2019, in Providence, R.I., after it was vandalized with red paint on the day named to honor him as one of the first Europeans to reach the New World. | (Michelle R. Smith/AP)

A city official for Providence, Rhode Island, said that vandals who covered a local statue of Christopher Columbus in red paint for Columbus Day are contributing to “healthy dialogue.”

Residents in Providence awoke on Monday morning to find their local statue of Columbus covered in red paint with a sign that said, “Stop celebrating genocide.” The word “genocide” was painted on the back of the statue in orange paint.

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