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      No, Vietnam Memorial Was Not Vandalized During George Floyd Protests

      The Vietnam War Memorial was vandalized in 2016 and not during the George Floyd protests.

      By - AFP |
      Published -  5 Jun 2020 6:23 PM IST
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      No, Vietnam Memorial Was Not Vandalized During George Floyd Protests

      As protests spread across the US after the death in police custody of George Floyd, Facebook users shared a photo of a defaced Vietnam War memorial, implying that the vandalism occurred during the current demonstrations. This is false; while the memorial in Los Angeles was vandalized, it occurred four years earlier, not in 2020.

      "Well. Your protest just lost me right..here," reads the caption of an image shared by thousands of Facebook users in the US on June 3, and which features a photo of a Vietnam War memorial defaced by graffiti.

      "Lots of heroes I served with on that wall," lamented one Facebook user.

      Screenshot of a Facebook post taken on June 4, 2020

      Although some of the mostly peaceful protests currently shaking the US have degenerated into looting and vandalism, the Vietnam memorial in Los Angeles' Venice Beach was not a target in 2020.

      Also Read: Did Protesters Storm The White House? A Fact Check

      The photo is real, but was taken four years before Floyd's death and the protests that ensued. A reverse image search shows that NBC reporter Darsha Philips posted the photo on Twitter on May 29, 2016.

      That Memorial Day weekend, the Venice Beach memorial commemorating 2,273 US personnel unaccounted for in Southeast Asia was vandalized by taggers.

      Veterans and community members help clean a memorial containing the names of 2,273 unaccounted for Vietnam war soldiers after vandals covered the mural with silver paint graffiti prior to Memorial Day in Venice Beach, California on May 29, 2016 (AFP / Mark Ralston)

      A 24-year-old man was sentenced in January 2017 to four years in prison and ordered to pay $38,000 in restitution for his role in the vandalism, according to the Los Angeles Times.

      At the time, the Los Angeles memorial, which bears painted names of soldiers and is more akin to a mural, was confused on social media with Washington's Vietnam Veterans Memorial, fact-checking website Snopes reported. The Los Angeles memorial was vandalized again in March 2017.

      Also Read: No, The Simpsons Did Not Predict George Floyd's Death And The Aftermath

      On June 3, 2020, the memorial wall in Venice Beach did not bear any signs of graffiti, AFP photographer in Los Angeles Robyn Beck confirmed.

      (Except for the headline, this story has not been edited by BOOM staff and is published from a syndicated feed.)

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      Claim :   Protestors protesting George Floyd's death at police's hands vandalized Vietnam War memorial in Los Angeles.
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