RALEIGH, N.C. — Authorities have accused a man of placing white hoods on a Confederate statue depicting a woman and a young boy on the grounds of North Carolina’s Capitol.
News outlets report 42-year-old Jon Williams of Raleigh was arrested Monday and charged with misdemeanor littering.
Williams posted a picture of the Monument to North Carolina Women of the Confederacy on Twitter , showing hoods often associated with the Ku Klux Klan over the pair’s faces.
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