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.”
Over the last few months, I've had several Freepers try to convince me of that very thing. I've had to ask a few, what color the sky is in their world.
The useless cops did NOTHING when Trump supporters were attacked in San Jose and Chicago during the primary season.
They did NOTHING at Berkeley went antifa aholes went on a rampage against conservatives.
They did NOTHING in Charlottesville to protect the whites from the attacks by antifa, and they did NOTHING in Durham tonight.
The cops are as useless as tits on a bull.
>> WHERE THE HELL WERE THE POLICE
Planning their retirements?
There is a statue of Ho Chi Minh at Cornell, I believe.
Read the excerpt. The police were right there, and did nothing to stop the vandals.
Attorney General Forrest Gump needs to go back to Alabama.
I saw that. So if the city police came upon some guy stabbing a woman in front of the county court house they would just watch? Got it.
Forrest Gump may have been dumb, but he had real courage and heart. Sessions is more like Foghorn Leghorn. All bluster and no action.
No. They'd most certainly intervene, because they'd have no fear of becoming the targets of a nationally coordinated left wing assault against themselves and their families.
Police departments all over the country began pulling back and standing down after the Ferguson riots. This is just more of the same, and it will continue until they get backup from the citizens and politicians.
Don’t give them ideas...
They will try to find a way to replace Washington and Jefferson with Obama and Clinton on Rushmore.
“I saw that. So if the city police came upon some guy stabbing a woman in front of the county court house they would just watch? Got it.”
Murders, rapes, mall shootings, etc by illegal aliens...it’s amazing what ‘liberal’ politicians will allow to further their own political power and agenda. The safety of the citizens is an afterthought or a never-thought.
So if they got shot on county property city PD would have just watched too?
Durham’s off my “to visit” list. The cops should be sued for dereliction of duty and aiding and abetting vandalism.
Who’s running the county, Susan Sarrandon?
Loan Tran? Who is she/he/it? Should be in jail for “mob assault” and vandalism.
The only Loan I knew of that was worth their salt was Gen. Nguyen Loan, the police commander of Saigon who executed a Viet Cong mass murderer of So. Vietnamese civilians during Tet 1968.
Somebody tell us who this Loan is. A red, perhaps?
“So it should be fine to go hammer this statue into oblivion as well, right?”
It looks like someone coated lenin’s hand with red paint...That’s a statue that needs to be removed, ASAP. Are there no rednecks with pick-up trucks and tow ropes in seattle?
#5. GO TO www.keywiki.org and search for “Loan Tran” page.
She is a gay Marxist member of the Stalinist “Workers World Party”, one of the original violent demonstrations progenitors.
Spread the word around about Tran. Tell people the truth that you wanted find in the mainstream media.
“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.”
Some chaotic scene of a Simpsons mob popped into my head reading that.
I guess the message here is: do not make Loan Tran unhappy.
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