Think of all the targets there are in the U.S., which one group or another dislikes or hates. They could go on for years erasing American history!
Lets just all stand by and watch. Looking sharp America!
Posted on 08/14/2017 7:19:49 PM PDT by TaxPayer2000
DURHAM, N.C. (WNCN) – A crowd of protesters gathered outside the old Durham County courthouse on Main Street Monday evening in opposition to a Confederate monument in front of the government building.
Around 7:10 p.m. a woman using a ladder climbed the statue of a soldier and attached a rope around the statue.
Moments later, the crowd pulled on the rope and the statue fell. One man quickly ran up and spat on the statue and several others began kicking it.
Durham police later said they monitored the protests to make sure they were “safe” but did not interfere with the statue toppling because it happened on county property.
“Because this incident occurred on county property, where county law enforcement officials were staffed, no arrests were made by DPD officers,” Durham Police spokesman Wil Glenn said in a statement.
Durham County Sheriff’s deputies videotaped the statue being brought down — but didn’t stop it from happening.
After toppling the statue, the protesters started marching. They blocked traffic with authorities trying to stay ahead of them. The protesters made their way down East Main Street to the site of the new Durham Police Department.
In 1924, the Confederate statue was dedicated to Durham.
Engraved on the front of the monument is “The Confederate States of America.”
Above it, was the statue representing a soldier who fought in the civil war.
Later Monday night, North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper Tweeted: “The racism and deadly violence in Charlottesville is unacceptable but there is a better way to remove these monuments.”
“It needs to be removed,” Loan Tran, an organizer, said earlier Monday. “These Confederate statues in Durham, in North Carolina, all across the country.”
There are similar monuments in several cities around North Carolina.
Tran doesn’t want to see it anymore.
“When I see a Confederate statue in downtown Durham, or really anywhere, it fills me with a lot of rage and frustration,” she said.
Organizers say Monday’s protest was a reaction to the events in Charlottesville this past weekend.
“People can be mobilized and people are angry and when enough people are angry, we don’t have to look to politicians to sit around in air conditions and do nothing when we can do things ourselves,” said Takiyah Thompson, a protester.
In an email to CBS North Carolina, Durham County spokeswoman Dawn Dudley says:
“ “Due to a North Carolina state law passed a few years ago, Durham County is prohibited from removing or making substantive alteration to historical monuments and memorials. I share this to say that there is a statute in place making the efforts you mention below difficult to move forward. I would assume that the only thing possible are steps to reverse the law.”
This statue has been the center of controversy before after graffiti was spray painted on it a few years ago.
The group that met Monday say their purpose is to “smash white supremacy.”
Just as a Post Script:
WHAT HAPPENED TO THE BALLS OF SOUTHERN MEN.
(did you all turn into a bunch of CORN PONE PUSSIES) ????
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Communists Raise ANTIFA flag in (City Hall) Minneapolis, Minnesota 8/14/2017
Twitter posters are saying that they then burned the state flag.
Think of all the targets there are in the U.S., which one group or another dislikes or hates. They could go on for years erasing American history!
Lets just all stand by and watch. Looking sharp America!
Washington was a slave owner who wanted to get rid of his slaves. They wouldn’t leave.
Thomas Jefferson would have to come down, too.
"Keep on Rockin' in the Free World..."
It’s coming, I bet. Once they erase the Confederacy, they’ll get to work on the Founding Fathers and Old Glory.
A key Organizer named in an earlier FR posting was a Viet Namese Loan Tran.
It’s apparently a metallic statue and not made of stone - hence why it appears to be bent / twisted rather than broken to pieces or just laying on the ground.
That part of NC is very liberal and apparently liberals control the police.
I think this thing will get out of hand soon and there will be escalating violence. The police have had a chance to maintain law and order but are standing down.
Washington memorials will be next and the rest. For some, American history must torched and destroyed. They’ve made that crystal clear.
Nothing American is sacred anymore.
If the police are not doing their jobs, then the Chief, Mayor need replacing, the DOJ investigate ,and all fund withheld, and wages not given out.
replace it with one 10 feet taller. Then imbed key parts with the same ink used in theft prevention tags on clothes. Barney purple.
The statue was in front of the court house and a bunch criminals tore it down in broad day light? Where were the police? Are there police in that town. It certainly wont be a problem finding the perps. They are all over YouTube. Dumb.
This is not a federal crime unless Sessions calls it some sort of civil rights violation.
Loan Tran LGBT activist is employed as a youth advisor ny Southern Visions, believe he’s 2nd generation VN.
Loan Tran LGBT activist is employed as a youth advisor ny Southern Visions, believe he’s 2nd generation VN.
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