And yet if I were braver and lived in Manchester I'd want to deface it too. Of course it matters what kind of person he was. There is a huge difference between recognising and acknowledging his death was unlawful and being so upsucky to the black community that you have to ignore his criminal doings and paint him on a wall to fawn over.
Both having the memorial to a foreign criminal and daubing racist graffiti is wrong. Two wrongs don't make a right, but the council should be setting a good example to the citizens.