Abraham Lincoln statue vandalised for a second time in Chicago

Bevan Hurley
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An Abraham Lincoln statue in Chicago was defaced for a second time in two months (WFLD)
An Abraham Lincoln statue in Chicago was defaced for a second time in two months (WFLD)

An Abraham Lincoln statue has been defaced with graffiti for the second time in Chicago in less than two months.

The statue in Edgewater’s Senn Park was defaced in red paint with the words “coloniser” and “land back” and the “Dakota 38” over Thanksgiving weekend.

The Dakota 38 is thought to be a reference to 38 Dakota Sioux members who were executed on Lincoln’s order following the US-Dakota war in 1862, the Chicago Tribune reported.

A statue of Abraham Lincoln in Lincoln Park was targeted by anti-coloniser activists last month.

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