The base of a Confederate statue in Charleston, South Carolina, was covered with graffiti in red spray paint over the weekend, including "Black Lives Matter," "This is the root of our evil," and "This is the problem."
The memorial "to the Confederate Defenders of Charleston" who died at Fort Sumter was erected in 1932 and stands two miles away from the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church, where nine people were shot and killed last week during Bible study. After word spread on Twitter Sunday about the graffiti, two men came and covered it with a blue tarp, Yahoo News reports.
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