Posted on 08/16/2017 5:16:29 AM PDT by simpson96
A woman who took part in the toppling of a Confederate statue in Durham has been arrested and slapped with felony charges, cops said Tuesday.
Takiya Thompson, 22, has been charged with disorderly conduct by injury to a statue, damage to real property, participation in a riot with property damage in excess of $1,500 — and inciting others to riot where there is property damage in excess of $1,500, according to the Durham County Sheriff’s Office.
The last two offenses are Class H and Class F felonies, with each carrying a sentence of up to 25 months and 41 months behind bars, respectively.
Deputies took Thompson, a member of the far-left Workers World Party and a student at N.C. Central University, into custody Tuesday shortly after she appeared at a press conference with other protesters.
“The people decided to take matters into our own hands and remove the statue,” Thompson told reporters. “We are tired of waiting on politicians who could have voted to remove the white supremacist statues years ago, but they failed to act. So we acted.”
Investigators said Thompson confessed to climbing the monument and aiding in its removal after being identified through cellphone video.
Authorities have been are using the footage, which was captured by cops, to identify all of those responsible and bring them to justice.
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Ididntdonoffin
This could be Obama’s daughter......
Suspect this isn’t her first incarceration.
And now the people will throw your revolutionary butt into prison.
Another poor starving Black who will have to interrupt her college career to deal with The Man. Does anyone really think she’ll do more than “community service” after becoming a media star? They’ll have her wrapped up as the next Rosa Parks.
Obama wished this was his daughter. 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 repaired and displayed again. It'll likely be melted down and replaced by a statue of Harriet Tubman or Tupac.
In Durham? LOL!
To say that the Confederate soldier was not a good soldier is a lie.
Observe the look on her face. The utter hatred: irrational, burning hatred.
This is a person who would gladly murder my or your children due to their skin color.
Are just supposed to sit and wait for that outcome?
obama told them to do what they did this weekend!
Treat all of them like Pres Trump did NKorea... the results speak for themselves!
She looks like a wife-beater.
Interrupt? This will be a valuable life lesson with respect to applying for her Masters or PhD and the taxpayers will pay for the remaining credits as she pursues her jailhouse college degree.
Single-handed statue-toppler.
TC
“Takiya.” Isn’t that the Arabic word for the Islam-approved practice of deceiving the infidel?
And THAT, ladies and gentlemen, is the gold-plated truth right there.
This crap is all the legacy of Obama and Holder, two men who never ran across a law they weren't willing to break, or a stew of BLM/communist discord they weren't willing to stir.
Takiya - yo big dummee!
That prosecution case in chief wrote itself with that video. Game over.
A jury of her peers will exonerate her.
NC has turned in to little Berkeley.. to many blue staters importing themselves. That’s why I moved. The headlines were clear.. esp in that area. I remember reading a story about the school district forcing parents and families into the all year European Schooltopia. Parents who wanted to do otherwise were not well received.
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