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junipero serra
The suspects are accused of toppling a statue of St. Junpero Serra, an 18th-century Catholic missionary criticized by Indigenous activists.
Native American groups have long argued that Junipero Serra an 18th-century California missionary was a white supremacist and a colonizer.
Pope Francis made the controversial Spanish missionary Junipero Serra a saint just last Wednesday.
The controversial Franciscan missionary is the first saint canonized on American soil.
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Junpero Serra "created and brought genocide to the California Indian people."
The first pope from the Americas will be speaking in the predominant language of the Western Hemisphere.