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A New York City college professor has instructed protesters to use a chain instead of rope “faster.”Erin Thompson, an assistant professor of art crime at CUNY’s John Jay College of Criminal Justice in Manhattan, responded to the imminent destruction of a Christopher Columbus statue at the Minnesota State Capitol on June 10“I’m a professor who studies the deliberate destruction of cultural heritage and I just have to say… use chain instead of rope and it’ll go faster,” ThompsonIn the same thread, Thompson linked to University of Alabama archaeologist Sarah Parcak for a detailed “breakdown of how to dismantle racist statues,” or as Parcak put it “remove an obelisk” that “might be masquerading as a racist monument.”On June 14, Thompson gave an interview to a British TV talk show on the topic: “Why&nbsp; statues are targets in the global anti-racism movement.&nbsp;In her bio on the John Jay website, Thompson says: “As America’s only full-time professor of art crime, I study the damage done to humanity’s shared heritage through looting, theft, and the deliberate destruction of art.”It’s not Thompson’s first brush with controversy. In 2017, she&nbsp; helped curate and sale of artwork created by suspected al Qaeda terrorists at Guantanamo Bay.A CUNY spokesman said he would look into the matter before commenting.

A New York City college professor has instructed protesters to use a chain instead of rope “faster.”Erin Thompson, an assistant professor of art crime at CUNY’s John Jay College of Criminal Justice in Manhattan, responded to the imminent destruction of a Christopher Columbus statue at the Minnesota State Capitol on June 10“I’m a professor who studies the deliberate destruction of cultural heritage and I just have to say… use chain instead of rope and it’ll go faster,” ThompsonIn the same thread, Thompson linked to University of Alabama archaeologist Sarah Parcak for a detailed “breakdown of...

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