“a decision the university announced several days after a shrieking mob tore it down from its pedestal and vandalized it.”
To hell with ‘decorum’ and how ugly a word it is,...Silent Sam was torn down by a shrieking mob of flaming assholes! I don’t care whose sons, daughters, grandsons and granddaughters they are or who they think they are. They’re just a bunch of assholes who are too old to not know right from wrong.
Mind your language, please; there are ladies present.