Wednesday morning people in Baltimore found the Francis Scott Key statue vandalized.

Baltimore's Francis Scott Key statue vandalized. pic.twitter.com/A4AnIRifd0 — Erick Ferris (@erick_ferris) September 13, 2017

The statue, located on W Lanvale Street and Eutaw Place in Bolton Hill, was spray painted from the sidewalk to the top its columns.

Francis Scott Key was a lawyer, author, and poet from Frederick, Maryland. His poem "The Defense of Fort McHenry" eventually became the United State's national anthem, "The Star-Spangled Banner".

Racist anthem was spray painted on the statue.