Three Confederate statues in Richmond, Virginia, were defaced with apparent anti-Donald Trump graffiti after an estimated 1,000 protesters took to the streets Wednesday night to protest the result of the presidential election.
The message "Your vote was a hate crime" was written in red spray paint on monuments to Confederate President Jefferson Davis and Confederate naval officer Matthew Fontaine Maury, the Richmond Times Dispatch reported.
Richmond police said the statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee was vandalized as well, with an expletive directed at Trump spray-painted on it and the letters "KKK."
Sharon North, a spokeswoman for Richmond's Public Works Department, said public works employees would team with Richmond's Department of Parks and Recreation to remove the graffiti.
On Thursday night, about 100 people marched as part of another anti-Trump demonstration.
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