Protesters Attack Confederate Monuments, Topple Statue

[packman]

Source: Huffington Post

Several Confederate monuments across the South have been attacked by demonstrators amid protests against police killings of Black people, sparked by the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis.

The statues have long been lightning rods for controversy over the Confederacy and America’s dark history of slavery.

In Birmingham, Alabama, protesters used ropes and a truck to yank a statue of Charles Linn off his pedestal to the ground, face down. Linn was one of the founders of Birmingham and a supporter of the Confederacy




Read more: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/confederate-monuments-attacks-george-floyd_n_5ed499dac5b6efdd574582e7

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I can wholeheartedly support this type of destruction. Time they all came down.

[NCjack]

1. Yes! Do them all. Not just for African-Americans, but for all Americans. nt

[rkleinberger]

13. The Daughters of the Confederacy building burned down...karma is a bitch.

[Pacifist Patriot]

2. Yep, not a fan of property destruction, but this I'll back 100%.

[lagomorph777]

7. This is not property destruction; it's trash removal.

[Pacifist Patriot]

8. Excellent point

[CTyankee]

10. Yes, the erection of the statue itself was a hate crime, pure and simple.

[greenjar_01]

3. Well

[Buckeye_Democrat]

4. Yay!

[Ingersollman]

5. About

time.

[Talitha]

6. Hopefully, every damned one of them comes down.

[Hoyt]

9. Legitimate protesting.

[maxsolomon]

11. toppling statues is a time-honored form of protest.

take them all down.

[Duppers]

12. Yes! Time they all came down. nt