Not long after protests against police brutality erupted around the country following the 2020 public killing of George Floyd, an unarmed Black man, by a white Minneapolis police officer, there was an incident deemed by some as a symbolic lynching in a public park near Kansas City’s West Bottoms.
A 200-pound, 42-by-38-inch metal marker, which was erected by the Community Remembrance Project of Missouri in 2018 at West Terrace Park near 10th and Summit streets in Kansas City, stood as a memorial to the lynching of Levi Harrington — until somebody cut it down.
Recently, somebody stole its replacement…