THINGS THAT MAKE YOU GO Hmmm.... Georgia Confederate statue gets a facelift

Police in Rome, Ga., are investigating damage done to a Confederate monument in the town's cemetery as vandalism

Rome Police Department Lt. Danny Story told the news outlet on Tuesday that $200,000 worth of damage to the statue of a Confederate soldier was now under investigation.

The statue's hands and rifle were removed by the vandals, police say, and the statue's face was smashed in

Confederate monuments throughout the South became points of conflict in 2017, including in Charlottesville, Va., where a rally to defend a Confederate monument dissolved into violence that left one counter-protester dead and others wounded.

While some cities around the country reacted to the controversy by removing statues, President Trump has defended the monuments, calling them "beautiful" in August.

Archives from the University of Georgia report that the statue was erected in 1887, 30 years after the cemetery was first opened, to honor the Confederate soldiers buried at Myrtle Hill Cemetery. More than 360 Confederate and Union soldiers are buried at Myrtle Hill Cemetery.

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