The "Memorial to Arizona Confederate Troops," a stone structure in the shape of the state of Arizona, was installed at Wesley Bolin Memorial Plaza on the Capitol grounds in 1961. On August 17, someone spray-painted the memorial white and added a scrawled white cross.
It was the second Confederate memorial vandalized in Arizona on or about the same night, following in the aftermath of national strife over the violent clashesbetween protesters in Charlottesville, Virginia, and outrage over President Trump's response to them.
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