And in New York City, protesters rallied on Friday night at Columbus Circle in Manhattan to demand the 76-foot statue of Christopher Columbus be removed, amid a nationwide movement calling for the removal of statues celebrating Confederate generals and other racist leaders.

Columbus has long faced criticism for opening the door to the European colonization of the Americas, the genocide against Native peoples and the trans-Atlantic slave trade. Columbus himself enslaved Arawak indigenous people and forcibly trafficked them from the Caribbean to Spain. New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio says he is considering ordering the removal of the Columbus statue in Manhattan.