Columbus statue thrown in Baltimore harbor, Seattle man plows car into protest, Georgians march against massive Confederate carving, and Trump stokes discord with combative speech

Protests and vandalism have taken place in cities from Boston and New York to Paris, Oxford and Brussels, in an intense reexamination of centuries of racial injustice

At least three monuments of Italian explorer defaced as pressure builds in United States to rid the country of monuments associated with racism, genocide

Protesters topple monuments to the Confederacy, colonialism and slavery, while authorities cover up and remove statues following protests