St. Junipero Serra Statue Defaced, Pulled Down On California’s Indigenous People’s Day
By Jonah McKeown
A group of activists near San Francisco on Monday defaced a statue of St. Junipero Serra on private property with red spray paint before tearing it from its foundation.
Serra, an 18th-century Franciscan priest and missionary, is viewed by some activists as a symbol of colonialism and of the abuses that many...