Man arrested vandalizing Indianapolis Confederate monument

[TomSea]

Man arrested vandalizing Indianapolis Confederate monument
Associated Press

INDIANAPOLIS — Police have arrested a man who they say damaged a Confederate monument at an Indianapolis park with a hammer.

Marion County Jail records show 30-year-old Anthony Ventura was being held Sunday on a charge of criminal mischief.

Police arrested him Saturday afternoon in Garfield Park on the city's south side, where a 35-foot (11-meter) tall granite tower has plaques listing the names of 1,616 Confederate prisoners who died while held at the city's Camp Morton.

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Pictures at that story and the following: http://www.theindychannel.com/news/local-news/indianapolis/impd-man-arrested-for-damaging-confederate-statue-in-garfield-park-with-hammer?autoplay=true

Suspect: http://media.theindychannel.com/photo/2017/08/20/ventura_1503243799803_64531033_ver1.0_640_480.jpg

A lot of radicalism about, I even read the New Miami Times, whatever their alternative newspaper is called and it certainly had some sort of idiotic remark calling the Founding Fathers racist; I found the author's twitter; and told the dummy that not all of them had slaves and in fact, on balance, more of them may have been against slavery (while not necessarily being abolitionists).

The charge against the man sounds like a misdemeanor, "criminal mischief", I think if they charge them with things like "destruction of public/governmental property", the punishment can be much more severe.

[Smokin Joe]

Sad. The Monument was to Prisoners of War who died in one of the North's POW camps (where more Confederates died than Union POWs died in Confederate POW camps).