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Jan 26 2024
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NLBM president sees stolen Jackie Robinson statue in Wichita: ‘Absolutely heartbroken’
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The Jackie Robinson statue that stood outside League 42 in Wichita, which serves several hundred inner-city and low-income youth in its baseball league each year, was stolen Thursday. “Absolutely heartbroken for my friends at League 42 in Wichita after the heinous destruction & theft of their beautiful Jackie Robinson statue that welcomed kids and fans to the baseball
Hastings TribuneFeb 13 2024
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Man charged in Jackie Robinson statue theft; crime wasn’t racially motivated, police say
A 45-year-old man has been charged in the Jan. 25 Jackie Robinson statue theft in Wichita’s McAdams Park, which led to national media coverage and donations from Major League Baseball and its teams. “The investigation has not revealed any evidence indicating this was a hate-motivated crime,” police Lt. Aaron Moses said during a news conference Tuesday morning. “Instead, we believe this theft
The Wichita EagleDec 14 2023
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Man Who Smashed Iowa Satan Statue Arrested
DES MOINES, IOWA — Local police have taken in the man who reportedly entered the Iowa State Capitol and reigned destruction upon the satanic statue of Baphomet, cutting off its head epically and gloriously with a chainsaw. According to law enforcement, the man said his name was "Doom Guy". While local authorities debated on whether or not it was constitutional to remove the demonic statue on
Babylon Bee (Humor)Dec 15 2023
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What a Satanic Statue Says About American Religion
Chestnuts roasting on an open fire. Jack Frost nipping at your nose. Yuletide carols being sung by a choir. And folks lighting candles for a goat-headed satanic mannequin. Even the most wonderful time of the year is stranger than it used to be. I’m referring, of course, to the public display of Baphomet erected at the Iowa state capitol by the local Satanic Temple. This erupted into the public
Christianity TodayDec 30 2023
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Jacksonville's Democrat mayor celebrates removing women’s history statue
Wednesday’s “celebration” in Jacksonville, Florida, where recently elected Mayor Donna Deegan unilaterally tore down two bronze post-Civil War statues that leftists had deemed racist, was Orwellian politics at its worst. The statues were collectively named “Tribute to the Women of Southern Confederacy and included a robed woman carrying a Confederate flag and a woman reading to two children,
American ThinkerDec 29 2023
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Jacksonville Pulls Down Confederate Women Statue in DeSantis’s Florida.
A 98-year-old Tribute to the Women of the Southern Confederacy statue has been pulled from its pedestal in Jacksonville, Florida, with Democrat Mayor Donna Deegan its removal “signal[s] a belief in our shared humanity”. “Symbols matter. They tell the world what we stand for and what we aspire to be,” Deegan said, claiming the statue’s removal was “not in any way an attempt to erase history but
The National PulseFeb 09 2024
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Fan who met Kobe through Make-A-Wish among hundreds visiting new statue
Fan who met Kobe through Make-A-Wish among hundreds visiting new statue Among the hundreds lined up outside Crypto.com Arena to see the new statue of Kobe Bryant was Moe Freeman, a fan who met Kobe through Make A Wish. Among the hundreds lined up outside Crypto.com Arena to see the new statue of Kobe Bryant was Moe Freeman, a fan who met Kobe through Make A Wish. Among the hundreds lined up
ABC 7 Los AngelesFeb 01 2024
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A Jackie Robinson statue was found burning in a trash can. Here’s what happened next
Major League Baseball and its 30 clubs are helping the city of Wichita, Kansas, move on from a shocking crime. The baseball leaders will pay for the construction of a new Jackie Robinson statue in the city after the original one was stolen and then burned. Bob Lutz, executive director of League 42, the youth baseball league based in the park where the statue is meant to stand, announced the
Deseret NewsFeb 01 2024
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Major League Baseball and its 30 teams to help replace Jackie Robinson statue
MLB and its 30 teams will pay to replace a statue of baseball great Jackie Robinson that was stolen and found burned and dismantled earlier this week in Wichita, Kansas. Bob Lutz, the founder and executive director of the League 42 foundation, announced the gesture Wednesday night on X. Jackie Robinson wore No. 42. “During this emotional week, we are proud to report some great news,” Lutz
The Wichita EagleJan 31 2024
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Beloved Jackie Robinson Statue Stolen, Burned and Destroyed in Wichita: 'Our Community Is Devastated'
Police said the thieves cut the statue at its ankles and "hauled" it off before burning it at a park miles away The Jackie Robinson statue that formerly stood at a youth baseball field in Wichita, Kansas was found burned and destroyed in a park miles away, police confirmed on Tuesday. "Our community is devastated," the Wichita Police Department said . The beloved statue was owned and erected
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