(Courtesy: WFXT) BOSTON - Boston police launched an investigation Wednesday after the city’s Christopher Columbus statue was beheaded overnight.Images taken at Christopher Columbus Park this morning show the head of the monument lying on the ground next to its base, surrounded by crime scene tape.The toppling comes just hours after protesters in Richmond, Va., pulled down a Columbus statue there, set it on fire and then threw it into a lake.Related: Richmond protesters topple Columbus statue, throw it in lakeIn that incident -- which reportedly was preceded by a peaceful protest for indigenous people -- the statue’s base was also spray painted and someone left a cardboard sign on top of it that read “Columbus represents genocide.”The.

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CAMDEN, N.J. - The Christopher Columbus statue has been removed from Camden’s Farnham Park.SKYFOX flew over the scene as the statue was being removed Thursday around 6 p.m.

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