Amid chants of “No Trump. No KKK. No Fascist USA,” tweet video above shows a statue being toppled in Durham, NC after apparently being lassoed. The statue was in front of the Durham County building according to one tweet (below).
No report I can find yet of who the statue represent(ed). As per the update below, the statue was not representing a particular person. It was a general tribute to fallen Confederate soldiers. According to a helpful commenter “It stood in front of the old county courthouse on Main Street, near the corner of Main & Roxboro streets downtown.” Another commenter notes that the momument’s inscription reads “In memory of the boys who wore the gray.”
Seems like the scene shown in the video may well be repeated in a number of places in the near future.
Here’s a toppling-aftermath tweet video:
Monday, Aug 14, 2017 · 11:41:23 PM +00:00 · jpmassar
Protestors in Durham, N.C. toppled a statue honoring fallen confederate soldiers on Monday, following a weekend of violent protests in Charlottesville, VA.
ABC’s John Kaplan reports the memorial has stood outside the courthouse in downtown Durham since 1924.
“It needs to be removed,” Loan Tran, an organizer, told WNCN. “These Confederate statues in Durham, in North Carolina, all across the country.”
“When I see a confederate statue in downtown Durham, or really anywhere, it fills me with a lot of rage and frustration,” they said.
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And a tweetpic, presumably of the preparation: