Trump signs executive order to prosecute anyone found guilty of vandalising statues
The order calls for"enforcement of laws that carry firm penalties of incarceration" for anyone who vandalises public memorials.
Trump's order follows a wave of civil unrest across America triggered by the killing of unarmed African American George Floyd, who died while a white Minneapolis police officer knelt on his neck. In Washington, protesters have pulled down a statue of Confederate general Albert Pike, while others this week were unsuccessful in their attack on a statue of President Andrew Jackson, a slave owner, near the White House.Those who have pulled down or defaced monuments "seek nothing more than to destroy anything that honours our past and to erase from the public mind any suggestion that our past may be worth honouring," the White House said.
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