SAN FRANCISCO – Protesters in San Francisco tore down a bust of Ulysses Grant and statues of Spanish missionary Junipero Serra and “Star Spangled Banner” writer Francis Scott Key in a scene that was repeated across the U.S.
And pre-dawn violence erupted Saturday in a Seattle protest zone largely abandoned by police, where one person was fatally shot and another critically injured.The San Francisco protesters arrived at Golden Gate Park Friday night, defacing the statues with red paint and writing “slave owner” on pedestals before using ropes to topple them and dragged them down grassy slopes amid cheers and applause.In Seattle, authorities were investigating what led to the shooting in the area known as CHOP, which stands for “Capitol Hill.