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Durham protester charged in Confederate statue vandalism
wral.com ^ | 8/15/17 | Drueger, Leslie, Owens

Posted on 08/16/2017 3:19:24 AM PDT by beejaa

DURHAM, N.C. — A North Carolina Central University student was arrested Tuesday in connection with a Monday night protest in which a Confederate statue in front of Durham County's former courthouse was pulled down.

Takiyah Fatima Thompson, 22, was charged with participation in a riot ...

Thompson was given $10,000 unsecured bond and is scheduled to appear in court Wednesday morning.

Durham County Sheriff Mike Andrews said Tuesday that his deputies were working to identify others involved in the incident and plan to pursue felony charges against them.

Some protest organizers defended their actions Tuesday, calling the monument a symbol of oppression and racism.

"I'm tired of white supremacy keeping its foot on my neck and the necks of people who look like me," Thompson said at a separate news conference. "That statue glorifies the conditions that oppressed people live in, and it had to go."

Thompson and several other protesters said they are part of the Durham chapter of the Workers World Party. According to their website, they are a "revolutionary socialist organization, engaging in struggles for the working class and the oppressed".

"We know that after Charlottesville and all of the racist incidents beforehand, all of the police killings, we are at war. This is war," said Loan Tran with the Workers World Party.

Sheriff: Public safety comes first Andrews called the protesters' actions "a blatant violation of the law," but he said no one was arrested during the demonstration because officials worried about injuries in the resulting chaos.

"Don't mistake restraint for inaction," he said. "Had I ordered my deputies to engage a hostile crowd, there would have been serious injuries. Statues can be replaced; lives cannot…"

(Excerpt) Read more at wral.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: North Carolina
KEYWORDS: alawda; answer; art; confederate; dixie; iac; loantran; nkorea; norks; northkorea; statue; takiyahthompson; vandalism; wwp
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To: beejaa

>>Don’t mistake restraint for inaction,” he said. “Had I ordered my deputies to engage a hostile crowd, there would have been serious injuries. Statues can be replaced; lives cannot…”

After a questionable shooting where a cop kills a citizen or pet, people always ask, “why didn’t the cop just back off to a safe distance and see how this would play out?” and the cops always say that they have a legal obligation that prevent them from ever retreating.

So, which is it?


21 posted on 08/16/2017 3:56:53 AM PDT by Bryanw92 (If we had some ham, we could have ham and eggs, if we had some eggs.)
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To: piasa; Fedora

bump


22 posted on 08/16/2017 3:57:43 AM PDT by piasa
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To: Yardstick

You said it!!!


23 posted on 08/16/2017 4:02:04 AM PDT by dp0622 (The Left should know that if Trump is kicked out of office, it is WAR!)
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To: Islander7

Don’t men’s shirts button from the left? [placard on the left]

The *preppy-look* is back! YEEHAH!


24 posted on 08/16/2017 4:05:24 AM PDT by Daffynition (The New PTSD: PRESIDENT-Trump Stress Disorder - The LSN didnÂ’t make Trump, so they can't break him)
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To: beejaa
I wonder if liberal news media's self-imposed ban on the word "Communist" will be broken now what "Workers World Party" might be mentioned.

No, of course not! What am I thinking?


25 posted on 08/16/2017 4:19:51 AM PDT by \/\/ayne (I regret that I have but one subscription cancellation notice to give to my local newspaper.)
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To: beejaa

A person died due to unrest caused in rioting as a direct result of this feral ho’s actions.

Maybe manslaughter charges are due?


26 posted on 08/16/2017 4:25:42 AM PDT by Macoozie (Handcuffs and Orange Jumpsuits)
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To: beejaa

...”revolutionary socialist organization, engaging in struggles for the working class and the oppressed”.

Working class here, and you do NOT speak for me. I take care of myself and would greatly appreciate you NOT “struggling for” me, just as I don’t use you to advance an agenda. And who in America is oppressed these days?


27 posted on 08/16/2017 4:34:58 AM PDT by jughandle (Big words anger me, keep talking.)
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To: beejaa; All

E MAIL THIS FR POSTING TO YOUR FAVORITE TALK HOST/
RHIS WAS A HIGHLY ORGANIZED FUNDED EVENT

One of the organizers has been identified as Loan Tran by FR contributer lodi90 in post 30 in this earlier posting
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3577173/posts


28 posted on 08/16/2017 4:47:15 AM PDT by mosesdapoet (Mosesdapoet aka L.J.Keslin)
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To: BobL
The Left WILL NOT like this!

Are you kidding? They're going to love it! Getting arrested for civil disobedience is a rite of passage for lefties.

Here's what's going to happen to Taquiyah: She'll plea down to misdemeanor charges, some wealthy celeb will pay her fine, she'll get a six figure crowdsourced bonus for her suffering. She'll be feted as a celebrity and speak about how "empowering" it was for her as a black woman to knock down those symbols of white male oppression.

That statue WILL NEVER be returned to display. It'll likely be replaced by a statue of Harriet Tubman or Tupac

The left couldn't have scripted this better.

29 posted on 08/16/2017 5:00:09 AM PDT by Drew68
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To: beejaa

“Sheriff: Public safety comes first Andrews called the protesters’ actions “a blatant violation of the law,” but he said no one was arrested during the demonstration because officials worried about injuries in the resulting chaos.”

It would be a dirty shame if some of these communist bastards got hurt wouldn’t it? What a worthless sheriff this prick is.


30 posted on 08/16/2017 5:41:09 AM PDT by Bonemaker
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To: Envisioning

“Foot on my neck...”

Too fat to get a foot on.


31 posted on 08/16/2017 5:43:59 AM PDT by Bonemaker
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To: exit82
So, Takiyah, ready to exchange it for Islam which is even more oppressive?

Takiyah—her name has a nice ring to it...

;)

32 posted on 08/16/2017 6:01:05 AM PDT by Does so (The Enlightened Left openly sacrifices "women and children first" on the altar of multiculturalism..)
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To: beejaa
Takiyah Fatima Thompson

Her sister, Odoriferous Labia Thompson, escaped...

33 posted on 08/16/2017 6:13:40 AM PDT by Feckless (The US Gubbmint / This Tagline CENSORED by FR \ IrOnic, ain't it?)
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To: beejaa

And, when the bright light of the media disappears, they will get nothing more than a slap on the wrist and sent on their way to create mayhem again.

JoMa


34 posted on 08/16/2017 8:58:03 AM PDT by joma89
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To: piasa

Thanks, good link.


35 posted on 08/16/2017 11:23:46 AM PDT by Fedora
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To: Fedora

WWP & BLM and Revolution talk...

Socialists gather in NYC to plot political overhaul (2016 election for revolution)
WND ^ | November 5, 2015 | Cheryl Chumley http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3356732/posts


36 posted on 08/17/2017 3:47:08 AM PDT by piasa
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To: joma89

And to follow up...sure seems the DA is going to go easy on them. Predictable.

http://www.wral.com/news/video/16889616/

JoMa


37 posted on 08/22/2017 9:03:37 PM PDT by joma89
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