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:{{See also|2020 Antifa riots}}

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In [[Boston]], [[Progressive]] [[white supremacist]] [[riot]]ers defaced the 54th Regiment Memorial to black soldiers in the [[Civil War]] as [[Antifa]] protests moved through the city.  A website dedicated to the memorial, which stands at the top of a hill on the Boston Common, explains:

In [[Boston]], [[Progressive]] [[white supremacist]] [[riot]]ers defaced the 54th Regiment Memorial to black soldiers in the [[Civil War]] as [[Antifa]] protests moved through the city.  A website dedicated to the memorial, which stands at the top of a hill on the Boston Common, explains:

{{Quotebox|The most acclaimed piece of sculpture on Boston Common is the Robert Gould Shaw and Massachusetts 54th Regiment Memorial by Augustus Saint-Gaudens; a memorial to that group of men who were among the first African Americans to fight in the Civil War. The monument portrays Shaw and his men marching down Beacon Street past the State House on May 28, 1863 as they left Boston on their way to South Carolina, Shaw erect on his horse, the men marching alongside.}}

{{Quotebox-float|The most acclaimed piece of sculpture on Boston Common is the Robert Gould Shaw and Massachusetts 54th Regiment Memorial by Augustus Saint-Gaudens; a memorial to that group of men who were among the first African Americans to fight in the Civil War. The monument portrays Shaw and his men marching down Beacon Street past the State House on May 28, 1863 as they left Boston on their way to South Carolina, Shaw erect on his horse, the men marching alongside.}}

The monument, which commemorates black lives dedicated and sacrificed to the struggle against slavery, was defaced with profane anti-police graffiti, as well as tributes to [[George Floyd]].<ref>https://www.westernjournal.com/rioters-deface-monument-black-civil-war-veterans-served-union/</ref>

The monument, which commemorates black lives dedicated and sacrificed to the struggle against slavery, was defaced with profane anti-police graffiti, as well as tributes to [[George Floyd]].<ref>https://www.westernjournal.com/rioters-deface-monument-black-civil-war-veterans-served-union/</ref>