Police in Statesboro are combing through video surveillance in hopes of nabbing vandals who damaged a wreath and flags posted at a Confederate memorial in observance of Georgia’s Confederate History and Heritage Month.

Mike Mull, commander of the Sons of Confederate Veterans Ogeechee Rifles Camp #945, told the Statesboro Herald the group laid the wreath and staked Confederate flags at the Confederate Memorial at the Bulloch County Courthouse on Main Street Saturday, and later found the display in tatters.

“The monument was not affected but the wreath … was damaged,” Mull said. “Two flags – a Confederate battle flag and the 3rd National Confederate flag – were torn from the wreath and thrown to the ground.

“The grapevine wreath itself was not damaged, but the stand that supported the wreath was bent,” he said.

Georgia first proclaimed April as Confederate Heritage and History Month in 1995, and it was affirmed by the General Assembly in 2009, according to the Chicago Tribune.

Mull said the courthouse memorial is under 24-hour surveillance, seven days a week, and he’s hopeful police will catch the culprit. He also chided those who might want to snub out the region’s rich history.

“I’m disappointed that we live in a community where history and heritage of all people cannot be respected and celebrated,” he said.

“Damaging the wreath is the same as desecration of graves. That wreath was meant to memorize the hundreds of men who left their farms, fields, offices and pulpits to fight for a cause in which they believed, right or wrong,” Mull continued. “The Sons of Confederate Veterans recognize the right of other groups and cultures to celebrate their heritage, and we wonder why we cannot do the same without retribution.”

The damages in Statesboro follow years of attacks on Confederate memorials, graves, statues, and other memorabilia honoring soldiers who fought for the South during the Civil War, a trend that seemingly escalated after a racist killed nine black parishioners at a Charleston, South Carolina church in 2015.

The stunt also comes after Georgia state Rep. Tommy Benton proposed a resolution last week to formally honor Southern heritage in April, the month he said “began and ended a four-year struggle for states’ rights, individual freedom, and local government control, which they believed to be just and right,” ABC News reports.

Benton said his proposal is aimed at “recognition of the Southern solider, his valor and his willingness to go and fight for something that he believed in.”

The Georgia Legislative Black Caucus said it’s about something else, and urged folks to contact House leaders to oppose the measure.

Caucus vice chair Sandra Scott alleged Benton’s resolution is “about hatred and racism,” ABC News reports.

“It is about glorifying a culture that found slavery acceptable,” she said.