![]() ![]() In a statement Saturday, San Francisco Mayor London Breed said she understood “very real pain in this country rooted in our history of slavery and oppression.” But Breed did not weigh in on the debate over memorializing Serra, Key and Grant, focusing instead on the broader destruction at the park. Key wrote “The Star-Spangled Banner” and Grant led the Union Army to victory in the Civil War before becoming president.īut the subjugation of Black slaves, in Key’s case of Native Americans, in Serra’s and both, in Grant’s, is another piece of each man’s legacy pointing to why they were targeted Friday night. Serra is known as the founder and leader of the mission system that helped create modern California. Photos also showed people vandalized a monument to Spanish writer Miguel Cervantes, the author of “Don Quixote.” And parks officials said the group vandalized several other features in the Music Concourse as well, including a fountain, several benches and sculptures. One video posted to Twitter showed the group using a strap to topple the statue of Serra. Police were called to the area just after 8 p.m., and said people in the group threw objects at the officers the crowd dispersed around 9:30 with no arrests or reports of injuries. The statues were displayed in Golden Gate Park’s Music Concourse, near the de Young Museum and the California Academy of Sciences.Ī group of roughly 100 people pulled down the statues, an eyewitness said. Grant on Friday night, spurring a national debate over the complex legacies of those historical figures amid a national movement to remove statues that critics say are monuments to white supremacy. Junipero Serra, Francis Scott Key and President Ulysses S. SAN FRANCISCO – Protesters in Golden Gate Park toppled statues of Fr.
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