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Group Fails to Take Down Emancipation Statue Before Attacking Reporters

Group Fails to Take Down Emancipation Statue Before Attacking Reporters
Glenn Foster, an activist seeking to tear down the Emancipation Statue, speaks near the memorial in Washington on June 26, 2020. Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images
Zachary Stieber
Zachary Stieber
Senior Reporter
6/27/2020|Updated: 6/27/2020
The attempt to tear down the Emancipation Statue in Washington ended in failure Friday night as some of those convened attacked reporters.

A group called Freedom Neighborhood organized a gathering that was supposed to end in the statue—featuring former President Abraham Lincoln and a freed slave and paid for by freed slaves—on the ground.

Zachary Stieber
Zachary Stieber
Senior Reporter
Zachary Stieber is a senior reporter for The Epoch Times based in Maryland. He covers U.S. and world news. Contact Zachary at [email protected]
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