Outrage in Kansas after Jackie Robinson statue cut down and stolen from park
by Associated Press from on (#6J68E)
- Statue of baseball trailblazer stolen from Wichita park
- Local police say statue went missing on Thursday morning
A prized statue of Jackie Robinson was stolen from a public park in Kansas, spurring a police search Friday and outrage across the city of Wichita.
The statue honors the first player to break Major League Baseball's color barrier in 1947. Surveillance video was released of two people hauling the sculpture away in the dark. Wichita police said in a Facebook post that it went missing Thursday morning.
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