Confederate monument tagged after Trump win: 'Your vote was a hate crime'
"Your vote was a hate crime."
Anti-Donald Trump protests bloomed throughout the United States in the wake of the Republican nominee's election on Tuesday. That included graffiti in Richmond, Virginia, once the capital of the Confederacy.
There, a protester tagged the statue of Jefferson Davis, the former president of the Confederate States of America, with "your vote was a hate crime."
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Other nearby statues, such as the monument to Confederate general Robert E. Lee, were also graffitied.
Trump has called for a ban on Muslim immigration to the United States and has said that Muslims will have to "register in a database," though didn't specify how he would implement such a policy. He has also called Mexican immigrants "drug dealers" and "rapists" and mocked a disabled reporter.
Last month, Trump's new hotel in Washington, D.C., was spray-painted with the words "Black Lives Matter" and "No Justice, No Peace."
Colin is Mashable's US & World Reporter. He previously interned at Foreign Policy magazine and The American Prospect. Colin is a graduate from Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. When he's not at Mashable, you can most likely find him eating or playing some kind of sport.
