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Durham protester tore down a Confederate statue in front of the old courthouse Monday.
At group of protesters in Durham, North Carolina, pulled down a Confederate statue and kicked it while it laid on the ground Monday.
The incident took place outside of the old Durham County courthouse on Main street. Hundreds of people were protesting the fact the Confederate monument still sat in front of a government building, as well as rallying against hate groups and President Donald Trump.
Some time through the demonstration, a female placed a ladder on the back of the Confederate statue and climbed up it with a yellow strap, CBS North Carolina reported. The crowd looking on cheered in unison as the strap is fastened to the monument’s body and is pulled to the ground.
Once the statue fell, some of the demonstrators ran in to spit on it, kick it and flip it off.
Watch the video of the entire ordeal below:
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After the act, the group of protesters moved to the street, where they blocked traffic on East Main Street at Roxboro Street. Police were reportedly standing by, but haven’t made any arrests.
The Confederate statue was dedicated to the city in 1924 and “The Confederate States of America” is engraved on its front. The statue depicted an unidentified soldier that fought in the Civil War.
“It needs to be removed,” Loan Tran, a rally organizer, told CBS North Carolina earlier Monday. “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.”
An email from Durham County spokeswoman Dawn Dudley to CBS North Carolina said the statue couldn’t be removed due to a law that was passed “a few years ago.”
Durham County is prohibited from removing or making substantive alteration to historical monuments and memorials. I share this to say that there is a statute in place making the efforts you mention below difficult to move forward. I would assume that the only thing possible are steps to reverse the law.
The large group of protesters were demonstrating after a weekend filled with hate and violence in Charlottesville, Virginia, about three hours north of Durham.
On Saturday, a counter protest of a white supremacist rally turned deadly when a vehicle allegedly driven by James Alex Fields Jr. sped into a large group. One woman, 32-year-old Heather Heyer, was killed and 19 others were left injured.
Trump has come out and publicly denounced some of the hate groups that took part in the “Unite the Right” rally.
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