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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Why did the police stand around and watch her and others commit felonies? Is the police job to step in before they commit felonies?
She looks like a wife-beater.
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Named for an Arab deceiver - check.
Groty dreadlocks - check
Wearing a man’s shirt - check.
Fits the template for a nasty fat lesbian.
Except she’s missing the trucker’s wallet.
No, she was part of a mob. She put the noose around the statutes neck. Her compatriots in the mob finished the job. Wonderful start to her future with a felony record.
"...Folks like this need to acknowledge that people like this pose an existential threat to their families..."
Made my day
She will get a hand slap and be a guest on MSNBC in a month!!!
About half a mile from my home there is a pocket park with a cannon and statue, a WWI monument. It was vandalized recently, the Doughboy’s rifle broken off. Peaceniks?
***the far-left Workers World Party***
Communists still. Waiting for a replay of Greensboro NC, 1979. Nazi SOCIALISTS vs COMMIE SOCIALISTS.
Yep.
Good. Reportedly, she is an openly Communist “organizer”. The only thing I hate worse than a Nazi is a Communist.
OMG?..she’s Black!!!
“Another poor starving Black...”
Hah...that woman ain’t starving. I’d venture to say she’s NEVER missed a meal. (see her picture)
The ‘wrong’ way is the liberal way - the choice of putting a rope around a statue and having a truck pull it down... which is one step worse than all the liberals thugging up against anyone who dares to disagree with them. Liberals using the power of the MSM to paint opponents as a KKK members or Nazi sympathizers ... shame on MSNBC...
That's evil - the equivalent of The Southern Jim Crow Establishment calling early Civil Rights Workers 'nigger lovers'... It's all the same crap... insider thugs using their power unfairly to win against powerless people with legitimate complaints.
NO LIBERALS you do NOT have the right to tear down history without the consent of your fellow citizens... all of us. NOT just protected democrat victim groups. Not just white liberal elite mobs. All of us. Americans.
I just did a quick check and there are lots of General Sherman statues across America. Let’s get rid of them because of THIS statement!...GENOCIDE!
“The more Indians we can kill this year the fewer we will need to kill the next, because the more I see of the Indians the more convinced I become that they must either all be killed or be maintained as a species of pauper. Their attempts at civilization is ridiculous...” Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman
Proof that hate amuses small minds.
Six months in the county slam eating baloney sammiches three times a day and a big fine should bring on a much needed attitude adjustment.
Normalcy Bias. That's a resume enhancer in her world.
Too easy. Add a year of video taped community service cleaning bird poop off of the statue once it's resurrected.
you mean kerosene billy?
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