Witnesses told deputies that Lewis had reportedly used his excavator - which was equipped with a flail mower - to destroy several of the signs. Responding deputies say they saw Lewis near a truck with the name of his company - Windsock Farms - on the side of the memorial, along with an orange excavator parked on a trailer. 12, 2020, the remaining signs were mowed down by an unknown culprit which led to the decision to form a group to discuss the ceremonious removal of the signs. Earlier, he had noted that he is not racist and that he has a lot of Black friends. And these people have been killed, you know, unfairly,” Lewis said during the trial. “Every time we go by those signs, you know, they’re telling us basically we’re racist. It has since expanded to #SayTheirNames to encompass the names of the hundreds of unarmed Black, Indigenous and People of Color who have died due to police brutality and white supremacy. The campaign’s goal is to bring awareness to the names and stories of Black women and girls who have been victimized by racist police, the organizers explained. Organizers created the signs in solidarity with the #SayHerName campaign, which launched in December 2014. “I don’t think that a person should be censored because of his preference of who he’s voting for and so the thing is that I expressed my Constitutional right and I went up and knocked down four signs.” “That was the fourth time and, you know, I was running out of patience with this,” Lewis said during the trial. The memorial was previously vandalized in late June, but no one was charged with a crime. On that date, deputies responded to a report of malicious mischief in progress in the 1900 block of Fisherman Bay Road, where a series of Black Lives Matter memorial signs had been located since late June. 12, 2020 incident on Fisherman Bay Road near Lopez Village.
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