Alright, maybe not a crisis, but they are ticking them off. Columbus, Ohio tears down Columbus.

"...Advocates for the preservation of Italian-American culture in Columbus have contacted their counterparts in Genoa, Italy, who have told them they are insulted by Ginther’s actions, said Joe Contino, spokesman for the Columbus Piave Club.

“They want their statue back. They feel pretty insulted,” Contino said. “Wouldn’t France want the Statue of Liberty back if we had the audacity to tear it down?”

The Piave Club issued a written statement last month, after Mayor Andrew J. Ginther announced the statue was coming down, that the local Italian community, which originally facilitated the gift of the statue to the city and has paid for its upkeep over the years, was “COMPLETELY locked out of this conversation and completely ignored.”

“The culture of mob rule is not the answer and it never will be. We find particular offense in the Mayor’s following unintelligible, insulting, and incendiary rhetoric from his press release: ‘the statue represents patriarchy, oppression and divisiveness....’”"

https://www.dispatch.com/news/20200701/c...-city-hall