In California, people have splashed paint on headstones and toppled the statue of Junípero Serra in a Catholic mission in Carmel, following Pope Francis’ controversial decision to canonize the 18th-century Spanish missionary. The canonization has drawn strong protest from many indigenous groups. At the mission, “greed” was written on a cross, and the words “saint of genocide” were scrawled on a headstone. The Carmel police say they are investigating the incident as a hate crime because people targeted “specifically the headstones of people of European descent, and not Native American descent.”