The monument was similarly defaced in 2022. The anonymous group behind that incident called themselves "resistors of colonial violence."

Spray paint-wielding vandals in Chicago covered an iconic Abraham Lincoln statue with bizarre slogans on Monday — including one that claimed the Great Emancipator was actually an “executioner.” The monument — which sits near the Chicago History Museum in the city’s Lincoln Park neighborhood — was defaced as part of an apparent act of protest on Indigenous Peoples Day,