Vandals defaced a statue of Francis Scott Key in Baltimore Tuesday night, scrawling “racist anthem” on the memorial’s base and splashing it with red and black paint, the Baltimore Sun reports.
Authorities also say two stanzas of the third verse of Key’s “Star Spangled Banner,” the national anthem, were scrawled on the ground, in an apparent effort to explain why poor Francis was the latest target in a string of statue defacing incidents:
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