“Prostesters” finally stopped from vandalizing a public statue

Vandals tried to pull down a statue of President Andrew Jackson near the White House Monday night before being dispersed by police. WUSA-TV in Washington reports that police used pepper spray to move protesters out of Lafayette Square, where the Jackson statue is located. Videos posted on social media show that the “protesters” climbed on the statue and tied ropes around it, then tried to pull it off its pedestal. The 19th century president’s treatment of Native Americans has made his statue a target of demonstrators protesting past United States’f racial injustice. The Jackson statue remains on its pedestal.