WABC New York: “A cleanup effort got underway Sunday morning to clear a vandal’s attempt to defame a sculpture of George Floyd in New York City’s Union Square. The larger than life Floyd was vandalized with a smattering of blue paint around 10 a.m., according to the NYPD.
“Police in the Manhattan precinct where the art piece is positioned recovered surveillance video showing a vandal mixing paint behind the sculpture before throwing it and riding off on a skateboard.
“The vandalism done to Floyd’s statue Sunday morning is not the first public attack on art in the man’s likeness. A smaller statue unveiled in Brooklyn over the summer was similarly attacked with paint by vandals. Floyd’s sculpture was one of three prominent Black figures unveiled late last week in Union Square, the site of many protests in the past year. His likeness sits next to statues of late Congressman John Lewis and Breonna Taylor.”