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Arkansas: Driver Destroys Ten Commandments Monument Outside Capitol

HeadlineJun 29, 2017

And in Little Rock, Arkansas, a driver plowed into a monument to the Ten Commandments on Wednesday, destroying the religious display less than a day after state officials erected it on the grounds of the state Capitol. A video posted to Facebook showed the moment the monument was destroyed.

Michael T. Reed: “Oh, my goodness! Freedom!” [pop music, crash]

The driver, Michael T. Reed, was arrested on felony charges. Reed is accused of a similar act in 2014 that destroyed a public monument to the Ten Commandments in Oklahoma. Arkansas officials have vowed to rebuild their state’s monument, even though the American Civil Liberties Union has promised to challenge the display as a violation of the First Amendment’s Establishment Clause.

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