Thieves cause ‘immeasurable damage’ to former Alabama home of civil rights icon Rosa Parks

[DonViejo]

Source: Reuters

By Verna Gates

BIRMINGHAM Ala. (Reuters) – Alabama police are seeking help in catching thieves who ransacked a Montgomery apartment building where black civil rights activist Rosa Parks lived when she was famously arrested for refusing to give up her bus seat to a white man in 1955.

The vandals damaged some items in Parks’ onetime home, which serves as a small museum and is on the National Register of Historic Places, in their hunt for copper pipes and tubing, authorities said.

The apartment was hit in “a random act of vandalism,” Montgomery police Sergeant Denise Barnes said. The incident was reported to police on Monday.

Targeted or not, “it is a travesty that someone could disrespect the dignity and honor of Mrs. Parks by causing immeasurable damage to her home,” said Montgomery Housing Authority Executive Director Evette Hester.

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[XemaSab]

1. $5 says they're white meth addicts

[DonViejo]

2. I'll see your $5.00 and raise it another $5.00 that they aren't

meth addicts at all; just white.

[XemaSab]

3. Stealing metal is a tweeker thing to do

The AC at work had to be replaced because a dude (who was white) stole all the wiring.

$2000 in equipment vs. $5 in wire? The wire's going to win in the mind of a tweeker.

[Warpy]

4. Best one here was when they stole the copper out of

a rail road crossing gate system. Fortunately, it was discovered before anyone got killed.

[Judi Lynn]

5. I think it was a racists' act, as well. They without a doubt have a vast hatred for anyone

who has challenged their filthy, evil determination to abuse the helpless and voiceless in our country, and an uncontrollable rage
for anyone who made that much difference in the struggle for civil rights.

[Rhiannon12866]

6. How awful!!!