NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Someone has vandalized a statue honoring a Confederate-era soldier in New Orleans.
The statue commemorating Col. Charles Didier Dreux, the first Confederate field officer killed in the Civil War, was found Tuesday with a white cloth covering the figure’s head with red X’s spray-painted over the eyes. Multiple media outlets report expletives were written on the statue’s base in red paint.
The monument has been vandalized before: In January, someone spray-painted “bigot” around the pedestal and left a burning tire at its base. In June 2017, the nose of the statue was chiseled off.
The statue was vandalized a little more than a year after the first of four Confederate monuments were removed from various locations around the city.
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