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San Francisco demonstrators have torn down a statue of Francis Scott Key — the writer of the “Star-Spangled Banner” and a slave-owner.
A group of Juneteenth protesters pulled down the monument Friday night in Golden Gate Park after it had been heavily tagged with anti-slavery and anti-colonizer graffiti.
They also tore down the park’s nearby monument to President Ulysses S. Grant.
Grant had led the Union Army during the Civil War, but married into a slave-holding family, and, briefly owned a slave for about a year before the war, according to the American Civil War Museum.