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Protesters topple Confederate soldier statue in downtown Durham

By Virginia Bridges

August 14, 2017 7:32 PM
DURHAM

A protest in downtown Durham on Monday night left a statue of a Confederate soldier erected nearly a century ago crumpled on the ground.

Sheriff’s deputies recorded the event but did not intervene as a protester climbed a ladder and slipped a yellow, bungie-like cord around the soldier’s head and arm and a group pulled the cord.

The statue did a somersault, collapsing against the stone pedestal in front of the old county courthouse on East Main Street.

Protesters cheered and started to kick the crumpled mass.



Protesters celebrate after pulling down a Confederate statue in Durham, N.C. Monday afternoon Aug. 14, 2017

Gov. Roy Cooper criticized the action, tweeting that “the racism and deadly violence in Charlottesville is unacceptable but there is a better way to remove these monuments.”

Monday’s rally, the second in Durham in two days, began around 6 p.m. as more than 50 people gathered in front of the now county administration building chanting, sharing their experiences in Charlottesville, Virginia, and demanding that people fight racism in their communities and across the South.

“Tactics are changing, which means that our strategies need to change, our unity needs to escalate and our demands to fight back and resist domestic terror needs to escalate,” said Eva Panjwani with the Workers World Party Durham.

As the crowd swelled to more than 100 people, the protesters circled the statue of the soldier holding a muzzle-loading rifle and chanted “No Trump! No KKK! No fascist USA!”

Groups at the rally included members of the Triangle People’s Assembly, Workers World Party, Industrial Workers of the World, Democratic Socialists of America and the antifa movement.

“This is a really an opportunity, this moment of Charlottesville to see what side of history we are choosing to side with,” Panjwani said. “This is not a call to make someone to feel guilty or ashamed. This is a call to say this is an ask from people of color to say which side are you on.”

Conversations about loving your neighbor have not worked, she said.

Alissa Ellis, of the Workers World Party Durham branch that was a participant in the Charlottesville protest, said people need to embrace multiple tactics because that is what kept her safe.

“We need to shun passive, white liberalism” that elevates whites voices over black and brown voices, she said.

Others called for all Confederate statues across the South to come down, including Silent Sam on the UNC Chapel Hill campus.

Durham County sent out a statement at 12:23 a.m. that said local elected officials and senior staff understand the unrest in the nation and community, particularly following the senseless acts that took place in Charlottesville.

“We share the sentiments of many communities around the nation that admonish hate and acts of violence as we believe civility is necessary in our every action and response,” the statement said. “Governmental agencies dedicated to public safety will continue to work collectively to ensure Durham remains a community of excellence where all of our residents can live peacefully, grow and thrive.”
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Vigil for Charlottesville violence highlights divisions

Video: Hundreds gathered in downtown Durham to show their support for victims of the violence which erupted Saturday in Charlottesville, Virginia, and some gathered express stronger political opinions, at CCB Plaza Sunday evening.
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Stopping traffic

After the Durham statute was pulled down, protesters walked down East Main Street and blocked the intersection at South Roxboro Street, some holding hands in the middle of the broad intersection.

After about five minutes, the group left the intersection and continued to walk down Main Street on the sidewalk. They stopped at the construction site of the new Durham Police Department headquarters.

Police blocked traffic and accompanied the group as members walked down the streets. No arrests were made, the department said Monday night. Durham County Sheriff’s Office has jurisdiction over all county buildings and landmarks, it said.

The line of protesters walked back to the old courthouse. Some took photographs with the fallen statute. Sheriff’s officials continued to take video.

Isaiah Wallace, 26, of Durham, accompanied the protesters carrying and playing a guitar.

Watching the statute fall “was awesome,” he said.

“It’s going to send shock waves through the country, all the rest of the racist monuments and symbols can get town down also,” he said.

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Some of the protesters started to yell at sheriff’s officials standing on the steps of the old courthouse recording, and then Durham police officers blocking the street.

Pierre Faulkner waved a sign in front of them that said “cops and clan go hand in hand” on one side and “Black Lives Matter smash white supremacy” on the other.

“If y’all aren’t going to help us, we are going to help each other,” said Faulkner, 27, a student at Durham Technical Community College. “You understand that. Do you understand that? You look like you voted for Donald Trump.”

At 8:26 p.m., a law enforcement official told protesters to disperse. “Leave the street. Leave the area right now. Leave the property of the county right now,” he said.

A small group continued to follow Faulkner down Main Street. He stopped on the corner of Corcoran and Main streets, and people then started to go their separate ways around 8:34 p.m.

Faulkner said all he wants is for their voice to be heard.

“The message that they are trying to explain to these police is it doesn’t matter about your skin color. Everybody is one person. Everybody should be treated equally,” he said. “They’re standing out here with guns and bullet proof vests. We have no weapons. This is a peaceful protest. All we want is our voice to be heard.”
More information sought

Earlier Monday County Commissioners Chairwoman Wendy Jacobs said she had asked county staff to start researching the history of the Main Street monument and state legislation regarding Cconfederate monuments.

“We don’t even have basic information about the history of the statute,” she said. “We don’t know anything about what the current laws are.”

“The first step of any conversation is understanding what the facts are,” she said.

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Protesters pulled down this 15-foot-tall statue of a Confederate soldier Monday night, Aug. 14, 2017, on East Main Street in downtown Durham. Durham citizens erected and dedicated the statue on May 10, 1924, in memory of “the boys who wore the gray.”
News & Observer File photo

In 2015, the General Assembly passed a law preventing state agencies and local governments from taking down any “object of remembrance” on public property that “commemorates an event, a person, or military service that is part of North Carolina’s history.”

A state law would be needed to remove a monument or relocate one to a site that’s not of “similar prominence.”

A person who damages or destroys public property can be charged with a Class 1 misdemeanor under state law, and if convicted, can receive a fine of $500 and 24 hours of community service.

The granite base on the Main Street soldier, which was dedicated in 1924, says, “In memory of ‘the boys who wore the gray.”

There are about 120 Civil War memorials across the state, according to the Division of State Historic Sites and Properties.

About a dozen are dedicated to Union soldiers, and others honor soldiers in a number of wars. About 100 are clearly monuments related to the Confederacy. The monuments are in cemeteries and on public and private properties.

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NCCU protest

Also Monday, across town at N.C. Central University, law school dean Phyllis Craig-Taylor opened a “peace rally” by noting she’d lost a cousin, Margaret Ann Knott, in 1971 to a similar incident in Alabama of a man driving into a crowd of protesters.

She urged the 100 or so in attendance to stand up and speak out against “the chaotic tone, the cynical message, the slights that are being delivered in this country today, trying to send us back to a time where certain people are considered inferior and less than, and others are considered privileged and more than” over factors that include skin color.

Law professor Irving Joyner added that he’d watched television coverage of what happened in Charlottesville with the eye of someone who’d organized hundreds of protests in this state and elsewhere.

He questioned the degree of police protection, and said in his opinion “that this was a set-up, that it was intended that there would be this confrontation in Charlottesville and authorities, had they wanted to, could have prevented it.”

Similar things can happen here, so people at NCCU “need to engage our administration and police department to tell us what they are doing to do” to prevent them, Joyner said.

Staff writer Ray Gronber

Durham has been a "diverse" shit hole for decades.

Wonder what these asswipes and their media lap dogs would say if some white dudes toppled a statue of some dead black community activist? Regards 18DAI

This is troubling.

But as mentioned - Durham is a shit-hole. (Mike Nifong, anyone??)

And the Durham police using the cop-out 'It was on County property so we didn't have jurisdiction' is pathetic.

Destruction of property and unlawful 'riotous' SJW behavior and once again LE stands around...


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Laura Ingraham posed an interesting question this morning. How long before they show up at Monticello or Mount Vernon?

Then what?

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Originally posted by Gustofer:
Laura Ingraham posed an interesting question this morning. How long before they show up at Monticello or Mount Vernon?

Then what?

Hopefully they're shot. That's where all this is headed and the Antifa/BLM crew isn't going to be happy until there is a massive amount of blood spilled over this nonsense.

It's called the "History of Now"
That's the Liberal way...

It's not going to be finished until they completely whitewash blackwash America.
I am not sure there is anything we can do.

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Originally posted by bigdeal:

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Originally posted by Gustofer:
Laura Ingraham posed an interesting question this morning. How long before they show up at Monticello or Mount Vernon?

Then what?

Hopefully they're shot. That's where all this is headed and the Antifa/BLM crew isn't going to be happy until there is a massive amount of blood spilled over this nonsense.

It will be up to US to shoot then....the police just stand back and watch.

I'm thinking Confederate grave markers will be next after the statues....Perhaps they will dig up our ancestors as well. There will be more bloody encounters for sure if the law keepers just sit back. There is just no excuse for cops to just sit back and watch the illegal dismantling of America's history. You can bet your ass MLK's monuments and other cival rights leaders will become a target. And then we will be repeating the late 60's riots, mayhem and burning of cities on a unprecedented scale. I expect this time we will see the more affluent sections involved. Then blood will indeed be flowing in the streets. With so much wrong with our country why must we pick on something that happened over 150 yrs ago?

 
Back in the 60's, we referred to Durham as "the armpit of the South".
 

Idiots

From James Woods:



https://twitter.com/RealJamesW...s/897173485226786817

These people will never be satisfied. They direct their misery at anything but the source because to address the source is too uncomfortable and requires effort. Easier to oppress others who cannot or will not resist.

How does this differ from anarchy? The cops won't get involved, the government turns a blind eye.

As stated above, it will be us to us to stop this and the costs will be high on both sides.

RMD

What these "protestors" believe they saw and did:



The end of one era, the start of a brave new world of freedom from oppression.

Hopefully, this is not the first step in our reenactment of the 2003-2017 Iraq Civil War.

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Originally posted by Gustofer:
Laura Ingraham posed an interesting question this morning. How long before they show up at Monticello or Mount Vernon?

Then what?

Hope someone brings marshmallows. Because the Democrats running VA will let those places burn for more Soros money.

Here's hoping the US Dept of JustUs tags Gov McAwful and Mayor Snarker with feeding that shitshow in Charlottesville. Doubt it.

Thanks Barry your eight years is going to take fifty to fix, if it can be.

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Sheriff’s deputies recorded the event but did not intervene as a protester climbed a ladder and slipped a yellow, bungie-like cord around the soldier’s head and arm and a group pulled the cord.

WTF is going on? Fucking cops just stood and let it happen? Filmed it? For their viewing pleasure later?

Every one of those "law enforcement officers" should be arrested and charged as co-conspirators with the idiots who did the damage.

And, whoever is in charge of the agency should be charged along with them.

This country is well and truly screwed!

When the hell will this shit stop?

Or do we have to have another civil war to clean it up?

And I have news for those safe space assholes. If it comes down to a major uprising by the law abiding people who just got a snoot full of that shit, the safe space assholes will get a very nasty surprise. They will be outnumbered and outgunned.