Turning Point USA announced Sunday that a statue depicting the late founder Charlie Kirk outside the organization’s headquarters in Phoenix, Arizona, was vandalized and splattered with red paint.
\n\nIn a post on X, Turning Point Action COO Tyler Bowyer shared photos of the vandalized statue next to a sign with a photo of Kirk that was also vandalized. The sign had a red “X” painted across Kirk’s face, and red paint over the word “Jesus” in the accompanying caption, “May Charlie be received into the merciful arms of Jesus, our loving Savior.”
\n\nThere was red paint sprayed across the neck on the statue of Kirk, across Kirk’s face on the statue, and on one of the hands of the statue that was holding a baseball cap. What appeared to be an upside-down smiley face in red paint was also painted over the bottom of the shirt on the statue of Kirk.
\n\n“This morning we woke up to radical criminals vandalizing our Headquarters,” Bowyer wrote. “Crossing over Charlie’s face, scratching out Jesus and the Cross & spraying red paint on his neck.”
\n\nThe vandalism came days after the first anniversary of Kirk’s horrific assassination while speaking to students at Utah Valley…
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