A Queens woman tossed a blood-red liquid on a statue of former President Theodore Roosevelt during an anti-Israel protest outside a Long Island legislative building over the weekend, cops and prosecutors said.
Allyson Fairbanks, 60, of Briarwood, marred the otherwise peaceful Saturday afternoon demonstration outside the Theodore Roosevelt Executive and Legislative Building on Franklin Avenue in Mineola by defacing the statue of the 26th commander in chief, Nassau County Police said.
Fairbanks threw a thick liquid that resembled blood onto the statue, which blemished the placard affixed to the stone platform and seeped into the stone, “causing a significant stain,” according to a criminal complaint.
Officials say the vandalism caused about $2,000 in damage to the statue.
She fled the scene but was arrested Monday and charged with second-degree criminal mischief as well as making graffiti, according to the court document.
Fairbanks was released to pre-trial services during her Tuesday arraignment, according to the Nassau County District Attorney’s Office.
She is set to reappear in court April 4.
