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Posted by: Stacey Shrader Joslin on Jun 1, 2020

A peaceful rally Saturday in Nashville turned violent when a number of individuals began breaking windows and setting fires throughout the downtown. The Tennessee Supreme Court building sustained graffiti damage and broken glass on one of the doors and the Davidson County Historic Courthouse sustained significant internal and external damage. Nashville Bar Association President Laura Baker issued a statement Sunday noting the damage done at the courthouse, including four fires, power outages and water damage. There were broken windows, broken lights, vandalized civil rights artwork and many displays of graffiti. See photos of the damage from the Tennessean. Baker called on the legal community to have the “difficult but important conversations about explicit and implicit biases in the legal profession and beyond, and work together as a community to root out racism, prejudice, and discrimination.”