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WASHINGTON The office of an African American employee of the U.S. Department of Education was vandalized earlier this week, and other employees have expressed concern that the attack may have been racially motivated. African art figurines were found beheaded, with their limbs removed, and a school desegregation poster was damaged, according to Education Department employees and a congressional aide.
The incident happened at the departments Office of Elementary and Secondary Education, the employees and the aide told NBC News. The department said the employee had been out of the office for several days and reported the incident on Tuesday afternoon.
The poster, which was pulled off the wall and damaged, was believed to depict Ruby Bridges, an African American schoolgirl who became an icon of the civil rights movement, sources told NBC News. Some of the employees co-workers are now looking for copies of the poster to put up in their own offices to show solidarity, they added.
he office belongs to an African American woman who was recently designated as a diversity change agent within the Education Department to provide diversity and inclusion training to department staffers, the sources said.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/african-american-employee-s-office-vandalized-inside-education-department-n1045856
Hekate
(90,565 posts)Once again, words fail me.
ROB-ROX
(767 posts)This crime is now the responsibility of the FBI to solve. The office crime scene should have enough evidence to solve the crime. These building also have cameras and the list of workers who would be key suspects.
RandySF
(58,534 posts)The assholes who did it are idiots to boot.