Posted on 08/15/2017 6:32:01 PM PDT by Enlightened1
DURHAM
The protester who climbed a ladder to help bring down a Confederate soldier statue was arrested Tuesday, and Sheriff Mike Andrews said his office will pursue felony charges against others.
Let me be clear, no one is getting away with what happened, Andrews said.
Takiyah Thompson, a member of Workers World Party and student at N.C. Central University, was arrested after activists held a press conference at NCCU Tuesday afternoon.
In a release Thompson said she was the one who tied a rope around the soldiers neck so that others could pull the statue to the ground.
The protest left The Confederate Soldiers Monument, dedicated on May 10, 1924, headless on the grass.
Thompson was charged with participation in a riot with property damage in excess of $1,500 (Class H Felony) and inciting others to riot where there is property damage in excess of $1,500 (Class F Felony), the Sheriffs Office said.
She also was charged with disorderly conduct by injury to a statue and damage to real property, both misdemeanors.
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Durham got exactly what it wanted: The statue torn down. Any charges are going to be pleaded down to minor misdemeanors. They WANTED the statue gone which is why they let it happen. And now they're placating those who didn't want it gone by making a show of arrests that will go nowhere. Will they put the statue back up? That's the real question.
Hoping their sentence is to pay restitution for the restoration of the statue, and that they have to polish it every Sunday afternoon while on work release.
Thanks for the update - she sure ain’t smiling today!
How does it feeeel...to be a felon?
Good news that they’re finally taking some PUBLIC action against these thugs - perhaps the notoriety will help some of them reflect a bit on their childish rebellious impulses and curb their enthusiasm for Talibanian vandalism in the future - but what I really hope is that the feds are involved in this at some level and working their way on up the chain of dupes toward the top - who’s organizing and funding this mass sedition - probably lead to Soros himself with enough time and prosecutions.....
More good news.
Two words, friend: “Treyvon Martin.”
From your keyboard to God’s ears.
Durham city po-lease chief C.J. Davis Durham County Sheriff Mike Andrews
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