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 Sheriffs 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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Lots of Sherman statues out there. Be ashamed if something happened to them.
http://www.historynet.com/betrayal-at-ebenezer-creek.htm
Shermans attitude toward black people is perhaps best illustrated in his own words, in a private letter he wrote to his wife, Ellen, shortly before he left Savannah to continue his march up the coast.
Mr. Stanton has been here and is cured of that negro nonsense, he wrote. [Secretary of the Treasury Salmon P.] Chase and others have written to me to modify my opinions, but you know I cannot, for if I attempt the part of a hypocrite it would break out in every sentence.
I want soldiers made of the best bone and muscle in the land, and wont attempt military feats with doubtful materials. As he admitted in his memoirs, In our army we had no negro soldiers and, as a rule, we preferred white soldiers.
I’m pretty sure it’s just a class 1 misdemeanor in NC.
She’ll plead down to some type of criminal trespass with a suspended sentence. No Durham prosecutor is going to want too much to do with this, I suspect.
§ 14-127. Willful and wanton injury to real property.
If any person shall willfully and wantonly damage, injure or destroy any real property whatsoever, either of a public or private nature, he shall be guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor. (R.C., c. 34, s. 111; 1873-4, c. 176, s. 5; Code, s. 1081; Rev., s. 3677; C.S., s. 4301; 1967, c. 1083; 1993, c. 539, s. 67; 1994, Ex. Sess., c. 24, s. 14(c).)
Adios, bitch.
L
Where’s the White pig that was standing atop the statue in the photograph ?
The Durham County Country and Socialist Club ?
Nope, it A FELONY x 2
like a cop running radar, not his job to tell you to slow down, just give you a ticket if you don’t
Yep
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