The debate over whether or not Confederate Monuments should stay up or be torn down across the United States continues. In Gold Canyon, Arizona, the Jefferson Davis Memorial Highway monument was tarred and feathered overnight in an apparent protest against the Confederate remembrance.
You read that right.
The monument is the second in Arizona to be vandalized, but the only one tarred and feathered in the style of feudal Europe and Colonial America, according to the local Fox affiliate news station. A local reporter said that cleaning up the monument will be difficult and costly, and that many people have been stopping by to look at the spectacle.
Someone tarred and feathered the Jefferson Davis Confederate monument on US 60 east of Phoenix near Gold Valley. #Fox10phoenix pic.twitter.com/CLO2kJZg8f
— Steve Krafft (@stevekrafft7) August 17, 2017
The Pinal County Sheriff’s Office is currently investigating the vandalism, and a glove was left at the scene.
Jefferson Davis was the first and only president of the Confederate States of America. One local man interviewed said he wasn’t sure why the monument was even in Arizona, as it wasn’t yet a state during the Civil War (though he wasn’t happy about the vandalism of state property).
The vandalism comes after violent white supremacist rallies in Charlottesville, Virginia, over the weekend. At the rallies, a white supremacist participant drove his car into a crowd of counter-protesters, killing Heather Heyer, 32, and injuring 19 others. Several other memorials have been vandalized and removed in the past week.
You can check out the tarred and feathered monument in the clip above.