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Memorial for black man lynched in 1882 is hacked off a pole and thrown off a cliff at Kansas City park
- Memorial honored Levi Harrington, who was lynched by a white mob in 1882
- Sign was severed from its pole in a Kansas City park, and thrown over a cliff
- Authorities are working to retrieve it and will assess it for graffiti and damage
By SOPHIE TANNO FOR MAILONLINE
Kansas police are investigating after a memorial to a lynching victim was vandalized and thrown off a cliff.
The memorial plaque honored Levi Harrington, a black man who was lynched by a white mob in 1882.
The sign was severed from its pedestal at West Terrace Park in Kansas City, Missouri over the weekend and thrown off a cliff, according to a park official. 
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The sign was severed from its pedestal in a Kansas City park over the weekend and thrown off a cliff, according to a park official.
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The memorial plaque honored Levi Harrington, a black man who was lynched by a white mob in 1882. Above, the sign prior to the incident
‘We got a report the other day that the sign was missing and came to find out that it was vandalism,’ superintendent of parks for Kansas City Parks and Recreation Kevin Evans told the Kansas City Star.
‘We discovered that it was thrown over a wall.’
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The sign was severed from its pedestal (pictured) in a Kansas City park over the weekendMemorial to lynched man is torn down and thrown from cliff
It remains unclear whether the act of vandalism was motivated by racism, Evans said. The sign will be inspected for graffiti once it is recovered.
‘All that I can do is get it and see if the rest has been spray painted or any other kind of vandalism happened to it,’ Evans said.
‘Other than that, I have to wait until I get the sign above the wall to see.’
Harrington was one of ‘almost 4400 “racial terror lynchings” between 1877 and 1950’ in a registry compiled by the Equal Justice Initiative.
The memorial plaque, which was erected in West Terrace Park due to its proximity to the historical lynching, documents Harrington’s murder and was erected in a ceremony on December 1, 2018.
The memorial had previously been vandalized in early 2019, when it was sprayed with graffiti.
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