The city, aware of Columbus' harsh treatment of Native Americans, gradually distanced itself from his name and renamed the park, Piazza Italia Park.
resembling blood. Amid protests after the killing of George Floyd in the custody of Minneapolis police, there was a push to have the statue removed — and counterprotests to keep it in place. The City Council voted the following month to return the figure by sculptor Armando Dattelli to the Christopher Columbus Society, which had donated it decades earlier.Erected in 1957, the statue had long been a fixture in the park.
But the city, aware of criticism of the explorer’s legacy of colonization and harsh treatment of Native Americans, gradually distanced itself from his name. The city renamed the park Piazza di Colombo in 2013 and, in 2020, changed it to Piazza Italia Park.Paolo Cristadoro, left, a board member of the Christopher Columber Italian Society, stands by as workers hired by the City of San Antonio carefully remove the statue of Christopher Columbus from Columbus Park, on Wednesday, July, 1, 2020.
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