'I thought he was fairly safe': Vandals decapitate statue of Revolutionary War colonel in Ohio

Brett T. | 9:18 PM on August 26, 2017

This time around the trouble started in Charlottesville, Va., with a statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee literally at the center. It wasn’t long, though, before people started vandalizing Christopher Columbus statues and monuments again, and not just on Columbus Day — er, Indigenous Peoples Day.

Not even Abraham Lincoln was safe; a statue in Chicago was burned.

The Bucyrus Telegraph Forum reported Friday that vandals had at some point during the week decapitated a statue of Colonel William Crawford outside the Crawford County Courthouse in Ohio had been decapitated.

Colonel Crawford statue outside Crawford County courthouse decapitated https://t.co/bB4etuoKrx pic.twitter.com/O8jrqCf2xw

— Telegraph-Forum (@BucyrusTF) August 25, 2017

Colonel Crawford statue outside Crawford County courthouse decapitated https://t.co/YffXx3tTon #statue #Ohio pic.twitter.com/4aJUJ48nid

— Chris Pugh (@ThisWeekChris) August 25, 2017

Vandals Decapitate Statue Of A Revolutionary War Colonel In Ohio https://t.co/1EvDdYnmEx pic.twitter.com/2SzBc5dbdn

— Daily Caller (@DailyCaller) August 27, 2017

The thing is, Colonel Crawford fought in the Revolutionary War, not the Civil War. Attorney Joel Spitzer was the one who noticed the vandalism and alerted the police.

“It’s actually quite shocking to see this in little old Bucyrus, where we really have little connection to what’s going on in the south… William Crawford was from the Revolutionary War and the French and Indian War, so I thought he was fairly safe,” he told the Telegraph-Forum.