‘Now, with this decision, the Marin County district attorney has given the signal that attacks on Catholic houses of worship and sacred objects may continue w.
A statue of missionary and Catholic saint, Father Junipero Serra, being toppled in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park on June 19, 2020. A separate statue of Serra was defaced and toppled by vandals at Mission San Rafael Arcangel in San Rafael, California, on Oct. 12, 2020. | Joe Rivano Barros/Twitter
Months after the statue of a Catholic saint was vandalized and toppled by rioters, activists are calling on a California district attorney to drop charges against the perpetrators.
On Columbus Day last year, referred to by some as Indigenous People’s Day, a group of vandals toppled a statue of St. Junipero Serra located outside the Mission San Rafael in San Rafael, California. As The Christian Post previously reported, five people were “arrested on vandalism charges for knocking over the Serra statue, leaving only the feet attached to the base.”