Hartford Courant · Jul 9, 2020
New Britain Rally Demands City Remove Columbus Statue
New Britain officials and the Sons and Daughters of Italy in America gathered for the 2018 Columbus Day ceremony at the Christopher Columbus statue in McCabe Park. PATRICK RAYCRAFT | praycraft @courant.com (Patrick Raycraft / Hartford Courant)After a rally Wednesday evening in downtown New Britain, a few dozen people took turns phoning into a Common Council meeting to demand the city remove its Christopher Columbus statue.
“I’m a second-generation Italian and I still think it should be removed,” resident Joan Leone told the council. “Italians have enough to be proud of. There are a lot of people in this community who see Columbus as a racist and murderer.”