The Statue of Christopher Columbus on Elmwood Avenue, in Providence Rhode Island, was vandalized on June 13th. All part of the nationwide rave the left is having. Break stuff, burn stuff, sacrifice minority businesses to the left-wing gods. But one of the suspects in this vandalism is a public school teacher.
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Derrick W. Garforth is a 34-year-old social studies teacher at Joseph Jenks Middle School in Pawtucket. He is charged with “desecration of grave/monument, which is a felony.”
A Social Studies Teacher and two women, one accomplice and the other a driver, tried to desecrate a statue of Christopher Columbus that was boarded up and behind a fence.
They threw paint. At the plywood around the statue.
Around 1:30 a.m., on Saturday morning detectives noticed a man and woman getting out of a car and running across Elmwood Avenue towards Columbus square. The two began to splatter paint on the boarded-up monument, according to police.
Detectives had been watching the Statue given the current events with the expectation that someone would try to damage it. Someone did try.
And there was obviously intent and the detectives discovered pain and gloves and other supplies in the car when the getaway driver rolled up and got arrested. But is it a felony to desecrate plywood around a monument?
It is vandalism, certainly but felony desecration? Is attempted felony desecration even a crime? In other words, I don’t expect much to come of this unless it leads to the discovery of other “crimes.”
And while the Middle School social studies teacher (more social than studies, if I had to guess) is under investigation it is probably so they can decide whether to give him a medal or a parade. Maybe both.
