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.”
Too many Yankees moved down south and this is the result.
Sessions is busy being a mouse of a southern gentleman. Let’s see if he wakes soon.
Soeone brought a ladder to do this and they got away with this? It’s like the Keystone Kops watching a crime in broad daylight and they are too stupid to do anything.
And Forrest Gump succeeded at many things like he was a football star, a successful Shrimp entrepreneur, a poet, and he got the girl!
Sessions, and more of the GOP are cowards who run to the cameras right after what happened in NC, and yet never denounced Altifa once , or even mentioned them.
Trump said both sides , and underpressure from his own party and insiders , he had to make another speech which still is not enough for these left wing zealots.
“So if we want to tear down statues or monuments we don’t like, it’s OK and the police will just stand aside and make sure we are safe doing it?”
You actually have to have someone who does something notable before they get a statue. They don’t have any.
well well well this photo , and your post explains a lot why the cops did nothing AGAIN.
So Berkeley, Baltimore, Chicago, Chancellorsville, Durham, New Orleans etc etc.
All Dem controlled, all where the protesters were allowed to attack, and vandalize. If anyone doubts that the far left zealots has not declared war then wake up.
I use the #IsisMuch? To tag these on Twitter. Make no mistke, churches are next, because driving by them fills someone with rage. That statement reeks of mental illness.
Durham, NC. It is THEIR city. Take your white face into a town council meeting and THEY will get nose-to-nose with you and tell you it is THEIR city. If I had 4 flat tires I would ride out on the rims before I would stop in Durham, NC.
A good friend of mine makes some fine Bronzes. Makes me want to commission him to do a Confederate themed statue just for leftard bait.
Then I could bust some caps into these slime without having to travel too far.
This is so much like a lynching, based on hatred, ignorance, fear and lawlessness.
Unchecked by law enforcement and prudent public policy, they will never end well!
I guess we can protest anything named for MLKing, Booker T. Washington, or any black person? Let’s see if we can!
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