A member of the group behind the statue, which calls itself The Secret Handshake, told MSNBC that U.S. Park Police took down the statue around 5:30 a.m., despite a permit that allowed the statue to remain through Sunday evening. The group said it was told it would be given 24 hours’ notice to take down the statue if the administration decided to remove it.
“Instead, they showed up in the middle of the night without notice and physically toppled the statue, broke it, and took it away,” said the group, which operates as an anonymous collective because, according to one member, “who we are is just not important.”
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