Parts of Martin Luther King Jr. memorial in Denver stolen

A large Martin Luther King Jr. memorial in Denvers City Park was vandalized, and police are trying to determine if racial bias was involved.

Several pieces of the marble and bronze I Have a Dream memorial were stolen sometime Tuesday.

The missing pieces include a bronze torch and angel, as well as a bronze panel that depicted Black military veterans, The Denver Post reported. 3 It was reported that pieces of the “I Have a Dream” memorial were stolen sometime Tuesday in Denver’s City Park. 9NEWS 3 A bronze torch and angel, as well as a bronze panel that depicted Black military veterans, were stolen from the Martin Luther King Jr. memorial, according The Denver Post reported. 9NEWS

Vern Howard, chair of the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Colorado Holiday Commission, told the newspaper that a community member informed him of the vandalism Wednesday morning.

You can steal. You can take. You can pull. You can hate. You can do everything that you believe necessary to detour the message of Dr. King and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Colorado Holiday Commission, Howard said.

Were going to continue to march, to honor and to work toward freedom, toward justice, toward the end of racism, toward the end of hatred and the end of discrimination.

Artist Ed Dwight created the memorial in 2002. 3 A community member informed the chair of the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Colorado Holiday Commission of the vandalism. 9NEWS

It features a bronze statue of King and smaller statues of Mahatma Gandhi, Rosa Parks, Sojourner Truth and Frederick Douglass.

The Denver Police Departments Bias-Motivated Crime Unit is investigating