On Friday, Mary blogged about the statues of Queens Victoria and Elizabeth II being torn down, the former statue decapitated.
The mobs apparently weren’t satisfied by this outrage because a screaming, incoherent mob also tore down—and decapitated—a statue of Captain Cook in Victoria, British Columbia.
A large crowd gathered around the Capt. James Cook statue at Victoria’s Inner Harbour on Thursday night and pulled it down from its base, leaving behind a portion of a leg. The statue was tossed into the harbour.. . . . Members of the crowd smeared the pedestal with red hand prints.In the statue’s place, they erected a wooden red dress, a symbol representing murdered and missing Indigenous women.
People had thoughts, of course.
In apparent retaliation for these outrages, a wooden totem pole was set on fire.
A native totem pole was set on fire on Canada’s Vancouver Island in what is suspected to be retaliation for the destruction of a statue of Captain James Cook.
The Salish Bear Pole was seen smouldering at the summit of the Malahat Highway hours after a mob ripped down a statue of the British explorer in the provincial capital of Victoria, took off its head, and “drowned” it in the Inner Harbour.The fire brigade were able to bring the fire under control, leaving the totem largely intact but its lower sections charred and blackened.“The quick thinking of the passing motorist likely saved not only the totem pole, but also a forest fire,” said Sergeant Tim Desaulniers, Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) Detachment Commander for Shawnigan Lake.“This was a very dangerous act that could have had far reaching consequences. We will be working with partners along the Malahat for video and dashcam footage in an effort to identify suspect(s),” he added.“Fresh graffiti was also located at the scene, speaking to recent events in Victoria where a statue of James Cook was pulled down and thrown in the Victoria Harbour, based on what was written, we feel the two incidences are related,” the policeman said. The words ‘ONE TOTEM – ONE STATUE’ had been scrawled in front of the burning totem in black spray-paint.
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