Protesters against the recent police killing of George Floyd turn violent in the Back Bay and Downtown Boston.

A group ransacks stores in the Back Bay, prompting the National Guard to restore order. More than a dozen works of public art, including the memorial to the Fifty-Fourth Massachusetts Regiment, are defaced. Demands are subsequently made to remove the the Christopher Columbus statue in Waterfront Park, rename Faneuil Hall, and review other works and names, prompting Massachusetts Historical Society president Catherine Allgor to declare, “I think people confuse the past with history. . . Maybe the answer is we don’t put up statues to people because the problem with people is they’re very complicated.”