Confederate monument vandalized inside Georgia cemetery resulting in $200,000 worth of damages - Washington Times

Confederate monument vandalized inside Georgia cemetery resulting in $200,000 worth of damages - Washington Times:

"Authorities in Rome, Georgia, are investigating a recent act of vandalism that caused an estimated $200,000 worth of damages to an 130-year-old statue of a Confederate soldier.
The confederate monument called Rome’s Myrtle Hill Cemetery home for over a century until it was discovered seriously vandalized last week, ABC News reported Tuesday.
“It has been reported, the damage has been estimated and, yes, [we] are investigating,” said Rome Police Department Lt. Danny Story.
Vandals appeared to have breached the cemetery’s grounds late Wednesday evening or early Thursday morning and subsequently smashed the soldier’s face and removed a stone rifle from its hands, according to news reports."