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BALTIMORE, MD - The Baltimore Police Department reissued its call for people to refrain from damaging monuments after a statue honoring Francis Scott Key ― writer of the "Star-Spangled Banner" ― was vandalized overnight.

"We know this is a hot-button issue," Baltimore Police Chief of Media Relations T.J. Smith said at a press conference Wednesday afternoon. "...that doesn't give anyone the right to destroy property."

The Key statue is located in the 1200 block of North Eutaw Place. According to Smith, someone used spray-paint and a "red substance of some sort" to deface it.
On the monument, the words "Racist Anthem" were scrawled.
The vandalism occurred exactly 203 years after Key penned the poem that would later become the national anthem.

It was during the War of 1812, and the Maryland attorney was aboard a British ship trying to help negotiate the release of prisoners while the British bombed Fort McHenry on Sept. 13, 1814.
He wrote his poem on the ship, and when daylight came on Sept. 14, 1814, he said the flag over Fort McHenry was still there.
A French sculptor created the statue, which depicts Key presenting his poem on the water.

Oldest Christopher Columbus Monument In U.S. Destroyed With Sledgehammer

It was not the first case of monument vandalism in Baltimore.

Three weeks ago, a monument erected in 1792 was destroyed by someone with a sledgehammer on Harford Road at Walther Avenue. It was the oldest monument to Columbus in the U.S.
source:
https://patch.com/maryland/baltimore/francis-scott-key-statue-vandalized-baltimore

Comment: In addition to this statue being defaced, anarchists have toppled or defaced statues across the nation including Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, Albert Pike, a Spanish religious leader in California, and General Grant. If this is not a sign of a revolution, what is? GE