No, Vietnam Memorial Was Not Vandalized During George Floyd Protests

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The photo is real, but was taken four years before Floyd's death and the protests that ensued. A reverse image search shows that NBC reporter Darsha Philips posted the photo on Twitter on May 29, 2016.

That Memorial Day weekend, the Venice Beach memorial commemorating 2,273 US personnel unaccounted for in Southeast Asia was vandalized by taggers.

Veterans and community members help clean a memorial containing the names of 2,273 unaccounted for Vietnam war soldiers after vandals covered the mural with silver paint graffiti prior to Memorial Day in Venice Beach, California on May 29, 2016 (AFP / Mark Ralston) A 24-year-old man was sentenced in January 2017 to four years in prison and ordered to pay $38,000 in restitution for his role

in the vandalism, according to the Los Angeles Times. At the time, the Los Angeles memorial, which bears painted names of soldiers and is more akin to a mural, was confused on social media with Washington's Vietnam Veterans Memorial, fact-checking website Snopes reported.

The Los Angeles memorial was vandalized again in March 2017.

On June 3, 2020, the memorial wall in Venice Beach did not bear any signs of graffiti, AFP photographer in Los Angeles Robyn Beck confirmed.

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