Mural honoring baseball icon Jackie Robinson defaced in Miami; police investigating

Police person launched an probe aft vandals targeted murals of shot legends Jackie Robinson and Minnie Miñoso. 

The paintings, located on a obstruction successful Miami's Dorsey Park, are portion of a postulation of artwork honoring aggregate legendary baseball stars. 

Negro League teams erstwhile played games astatine the historical park.

Prominent members of the assemblage held a quality league and said the vandalism was initially discovered by a 7-year-old boy. The marks near connected the murals were identified arsenic Nazi symbols, speakers astatine the quality league said.

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Murals of shot legends Minnie Miñoso, left, and Jackie Robinson, center, are covered with plywood aft being defaced successful Miami's Overtown vicinity Thursday, June 5, 2025, successful Miami. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky)

Plywood has since been placed implicit the murals of Robinson and Miñoso.

"I cognize you whitethorn not beryllium capable to amusement it connected television, but we request the assemblage to uncover the wounded and the hatred that is existing," said Terrance Cribbs-Lorrant, enforcement manager of the City of Miami Black Police Precinct. "The crushed wherefore this keeps being perpetuated is due to the fact that we support covering it up."

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On Wednesday, Democratic U.S. Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick described the vandalism arsenic a "vile enactment of hatred."

Late MLB icon Jackie Robinson (Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

"We indispensable dainty this for what it is: a hatred transgression meant to instill fearfulness and division. But we volition not beryllium intimidated. We volition respond with unity, resilience, and an unwavering committedness to truth, justice, and the preservation of our history," she said.

Robinson broke the colour obstruction successful Major League Baseball successful 1947 erstwhile helium became the archetypal Black player, signing with the Brooklyn Dodgers. Miñoso became MLB's archetypal Afro-Latino subordinate and the archetypal Black subordinate for the Chicago White Sox.

The murals person been displayed successful the parkland since 2011.

Murals of shot legends Minnie Miñoso, 2nd from left, and Jackie Robinson, 3rd from left, are covered with plywood aft being defaced successful Miami's Overtown vicinity Thursday, June 5, 2025, successful Miami. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky)

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Police person yet to marque immoderate arrests for the vandalism. Fox News Digital contacted the Miami Police Department for much information.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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