During the George Floyd protests in 2020, the public sculpture Serve & Protect in Salt Lake City's Public Safety Building was vandalized. The sculpture is of a large pair of hands, representing the service of the police, and the sculpture was vandalised with red paint such that the hands appeared bloodied. This was done to draw attention to police brutality. The paint was washed off the next day.Serve & Protect - 45. Salt Lake City Public Art Program. Retrieved 1 June 2020.The day after: An eerie calm fills downtown Salt Lake City, but a determined cause still smolders. Salt Lake Tribune. Retrieved 1 June 2020.
