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The statue was found dismantled in a burning barrel 7 miles away from the park. Luckily the original molds were saved and the statue will be rebuilt. Police are still searching for the culprits.
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There's a go-fund-me link on the main page for anyone who wants to contribute to a replacement...I donated...hope it's legit.
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About twenty years ago, my brother and I took my mother to the Grand Canyon and Las Vegas - and, while my older brother, who insisted on doing all the driving, was taking us all around the miles and miles outside between or near those two site, we passed by the famous balancing rock formation- he wouldn't stop - so we did not get a chance to take photos of it. Several years later, some jackass managed to dislodge the stone that had hung- balanced for centuries. So...take the time to 'smell the roses' (before bees are extinct) and take photos for prosperity. .
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https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/...rned-trash-can No, they didn't do it for as drug money or to display it on their lawn. RACISM- 'Pure' & Simple!! I'm so glad I was raised better than that. .
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In an election year I don't take anything at face value in regards to racism claims etc. I truly hope they find the idiots who did this and the real story comes out. There have been alot of statues coming down in recent years sadly.
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This is a weird comment. You think putting a Jackie Robinson statue in a burn barrel is a false-flag operation?
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There is a lot of bronze out there for you to scrap. I can't know anyone's motivation until they give it, but you'd think there are other opportunities than a statue of Jackie.
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Some people are in deep denial over the depth and pervasiveness of aniblack racism in this country. It's hard to imagine having ones head in the sand to that degree, but few things surprise me anymore when it comes to this issue. After all, according to some the civil war was about "states rights" and nothing more...
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I am reminded by the sad story of Emmett Till's bulletproof memorial:
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I think the most likely outcome is that it was stolen for the materials by some low lifes, probably for drugs. We just had the catalytic converter stolen from our church van a few weeks ago. We have had baby Jesus stolen for our nativity scene before. I don't automatically assume these people hate christians (though there are alot in this world that do). I think espn and anyone else who automatically claim its racism without any evidence are playing politics and stoking the racial divide for personal gain.
If that indeed comes to light as the motive, then they should be charged with a hate crime and punished more severely. Personally, I'd be fine if they were put in a trash can and burned. I also don't "have my head in the sand" as referenced by another poster but you would have to, to not have seen Smollet, Whitmer, Wallace etc. cases where they were either completely staged or racism was presumed, only to be discovered it had nothing to do with it or the entire thing was fake. Most people get along just fine. My white sister is married to a black man. My nephews are interracial. My middle son plays football and many of his closest friends are of a different race than him. I had a long discussion just last night with my white niece about Jackie as they are reading his biography in school as a part of Black History Month. They started yesterday. She is 11 and is now excited to come and see my Robinson cards and display this weekend. My son will also be in town for the weekend from college One reason Campy is my favorite player is because he was interracial and got crap from both sides. That on top of the accident and yet he didn't ever lose his positive attitude, his Christian faith etc. He didn't grow bitter, he just kept smiling and won over many hearts because of it.
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A few cherry-picked, isolated examples of staged hate crimes don't disprove the point that antiblack racism is deeply embedded into US history and culture, including the present. One needn't look further than the attempts of numerous state legislatures to ban the teaching of black history, or even worse, to try and revise it. (Teaching students that black slaves "learned valuable skills" while enslaved is one recent example.) The fact that black people can now play in the MLB, or sit anywhere they want to on a bus does not negate the rise in antiblack racism that we've seen over the last 10 to 15 years. It's almost as if something was going on from 2008 to 2016 that contributed to this, but I can't put my finger on what that was...
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The truck used in the crime was abandoned and has been recovered, I am assuming it was a stolen vehicle, the cops won’t say right now. The statue weighs 300 to 400 pounds. Bronze is currently going for $2.45 a pound for scrap. That’s a $750-$1000 payday for a small crew. There were at least three of them, I saw a surveillance video of two guys lifting the statue on to the bed of the truck while someone was backing up the truck. It sounds to me like this was a hit by a crew who didn’t think things all the way through and ditched what was left of their attempts to melt and smash the statue when they realized the uproar over the statue. If I turn out to be wrong I will be the first to admit I have my head in the sand. I wonder how many posters here will do the same if they turn out to be wrong.
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Arrest made:
As predicted: "The investigation has not revealed any evidence indicating that this was a hate-motivated crime," said Aaron Moses of the Wichita Police Department. "We believe this theft was motivated by the financial gain of scrapping common metal." Quote:
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