A police memorial in Richmond, Virginia has been vandalized with a message referring to the police killing of a black man in Louisiana.
A large red ‘X’ was spray-painted on the torso of the statue of an officer carrying a child, and ‘Justice for Alton’ is written on the stones below, an apparent reference to 37-year-old Alton Sterling of Baton Rouge.
‘It’s a senseless act,’ said local resident H. Penn Burke, whose police father was slain in 1925, to the Richmond Times-Dispatch.
‘In my opinion, children aren’t raised correctly correctly today to respect elders, to respect the parents, to respect teachers and especially to respect law enforcement,’ he added.