Members of Bridgeport's Italian-American community called on the city Sunday to return the Christopher Columbus statue that was recently removed from Seaside Park. A majority of city council members have signed a resolution making that request. "We've put forth a resolution demanding that the mayor put the statue back up," said Mike DeFilippo.

The monument was quietly removed two weeks ago amid national controversy over the role of Columbus in history. Chris Caruso, of the Council of Italian American Societies of Greater Bridgeport, says history is being unfairly rewritten to cast Columbus in a negative light to fit a modern-day agenda, creating what he calls "a false and deceptive narrative inconsistent with historical fact."