Vandals attack bust of US justice who reaffirmed slavery

[Omaha Steve]

Source: AP

FREDERICK, Md. (AP) — Police in Maryland say two suspects vandalized a bust of the Supreme Court justice who wrote the 1857 Dred Scott decision reaffirming slavery.

Officials with the Frederick Police Department released frames Tuesday from a surveillance video showing two suspects approaching the bust of Roger Brooke Taney (TAW-nee) outside City Hall. Police say the suspects were carrying a plastic bag with a paint can inside.

The bust was found Sunday morning covered in a red paint-like substance.



In this Oct. 11 2015, frame from surveillance video provided by the Frederick Police Department, the bust honoring Supreme Court justice Roger Brooke Taney is vandalized outside City Hall in Frederick, Md. Taney, whose bust was found covered in a red paint-like substance, wrote the 1857 Dred Scott decision affirming slavery. (Frederick Police Department via AP)

Read more: http://bigstory.ap.org/article/78e234c9ce1e457e95c561218ceb9524/vandals-attack-bust-us-justice-who-reaffirmed-slavery

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This is so weird. Marta and I were watching episode one of "Ken Burns Civil War" last night and he is in it.

Review of the restored Blu-ray. http://www.blu-ray.com/movies/The-Civil-War-Blu-ray/129243/#Review

[christx30]

1. Why is this guy still be honored

so many years later?
Seems like it's like finding a bust of Himmler in Berlin in 2015.

[Fred Sanders]

2. His Honor was not an honorable person and deserves a dustbin of history, not a memorial.

[brush]

3. Woohoo!

[elleng]

4. C'Span's doing histories of important supreme court cases,

and they did Dred Scott LAST NIGHT!

[appalachiablue]

5. Any memorials to Roger Taney of the Dred Scott case should have come down over 100 years ago.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_B._Taney

[uawchild]

6. "Vandals"? That's a misnomer if I ever heard one.

I realized it's in the article's original title, but to call defacing a monument to slavery supporters like Taney vandalism is like calling the people that tore down the Berlin Wall vandals for that.

[appalachiablue]

7. True, but it's the 'legal' term for the act I guess. But they were right, take it all down 4ever!