At the beginning of last week, a person was seen spray-painting Confederate monuments at the Bastrop County courthouse. A recent petition is calling for the removal of these monuments. On Sunday, June 7, around 5 p.m., a white male acting alone was captured on security cameras spray-painting two public monuments, County Judge Paul Pape announced in a statement at the regular meeting of the Bastrop County Commissioners’ Court the following day. Someone driving by at the time witnessed the event and took photographs of the man’s vehicle, and the sheriff and district attorney are investigating the incident and intend to prosecute ...