{"id":21421,"date":"2020-07-23T09:07:12","date_gmt":"2020-07-23T13:07:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=21421"},"modified":"2020-07-23T10:14:28","modified_gmt":"2020-07-23T14:14:28","slug":"blm-terrorists-vandalize-the-vietnam-veterans-memorial-on-the-national-mall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=21421","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t forget that BLM protesters vandalized the Abraham Lincoln statue in London."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Screen-Shot-2020-07-23-at-10.13.45-AM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"457\" height=\"810\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-21460\" srcset=\"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Screen-Shot-2020-07-23-at-10.13.45-AM.png 457w, http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Screen-Shot-2020-07-23-at-10.13.45-AM-169x300.png 169w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 457px) 100vw, 457px\" \/><\/p>\n<h1>Black Lives Matter protesters graffiti Abraham Lincoln statue in London<\/h1>\n<p>by Spencer Neale, Breaking News Reporter<\/p>\n<p>Protesters in London scrawled the names of black people killed while in the custody of or by police onto a statue of President Abraham Lincoln in Parliament Square.<\/p>\n<p>Video and images from the area show protesters climbing the statue to cheers from the crowd before vandalizing the statue with spray paint and covering the base of the statue with Black Lives Matter signs.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">A <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/BlackLivesMatter?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#BlackLivesMatter<\/a> protestor scales the Abraham Lincoln statue in London\u2019s Parliament Square.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LBC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@LBC<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LBCNews?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@LBCNews<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/7z3oxlnhrm\">pic.twitter.com\/7z3oxlnhrm<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Matthew Thompson (@mattuthompson) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mattuthompson\/status\/1269276142722260997?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 6, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Continue reading at:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/black-lives-matter-protesters-graffiti-abraham-lincoln-statue-in-london\">https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/black-lives-matter-protesters-graffiti-abraham-lincoln-statue-in-london<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21421\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}