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Wednesday, August 16, 2017
College student, 22, arrested for her role in toppling Confederate statue in North Carolina
Protesters topple confederate statue in Durham, NC
A college student was arrested Tuesday for toppling a nearly century-old statue of a Confederate soldier Monday in North Carolina in front of a cheering crowd.
WARNING: ARREST VIDEO CONTAINS PROFANITY
Takiya Thompson, 22, brought a ladder up to the statue and used a rope to pull down the Confederate Soldiers Monument that was dedicated in 1924, according to The Associated Press. A diverse crowd of dozens cheered as the statue of a soldier holding a rifle fell to the ground in front of an old courthouse building that now houses local government offices in Durham County.
Seconds after the monument fell, protesters began kicking the crumpled bronze monument.
“I’m tired of white supremacy keeping its foot on my neck and the necks of people who look like me,” Thompson said at a news conference. “That statue glorifies the conditions that oppressed people live in, and it had to go.”
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They should pay repair cost and serve time for destruction of county property....lock her ass up! Get the rest of them also!!!
Send her to jail, she'll learn the word RESPECT real quick!!!
One person out of 50/60 people there!
Talk about a token. Looks like they got their token patsy to make it look like they're outraged when we all know damn well, they're not. She'll end up pleading out to a misdemeanor and serve zero time, paying no fine. Walk away with a tap on the wrist if that. All to hoodwink you into believing they really give a sh&&. Whatever!
“There are few, I believe, in this enlightened age, who will not acknowledge that slavery as an institution is a moral and political evil,” Lee wrote back in 1856, in a letter written in response to a speech given by then-President Franklin Pierce.
Lee wasn't anti-union so much as he was pro-Virginia, his home state. He went to defend his home state.
Was she the one I saw in a video climbing down from a ladder? They should hunt down that chink looking chick with the pigtails that was kicking the crap out of it
So, they arrest her, but the City of Baltimore removes a bunch of them overnight in the same manner and that's legal?
WHY?
I just watched a video of her arrest. Right in the middle of a press conference where she was asking for amnesty for all involved. She was led away, put in the front seat while "her friends" were chanting "cops and klan go hand in hand".
And these are the people that some, including politicians, hold up as heroes or whatever?
Very doubtful!
Government thinks they can do whatever they want and not be held accountable, the Clintons have proved that over and over again.
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