2 arrested for vandalizing U. of North Carolina memorial
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Police at North Carolina's flagship public university say they've arrested two people accused of vandalizing a monument to enslaved and free black workers who built the school.
University of North Carolina police say 31-year-old Ryan Francis Barnett of Sanford and 50-year-old Nancy Rushton McCorkle of Newberry, South Carolina, were arrested Monday. They face misdemeanor charges of damaging property and ethnic intimidation.
Neither had listed phone numbers.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}They're accused of marking the Unsung Founders Memorial last month with what the Chapel Hill campus's interim chancellor said was "racist language."
The memorial is in a central plaza that also featured a statue of a Confederate soldier before protesters tore it down in August.