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Protesters in Raleigh drag a Confederate soldier statue through the street and hang it from a pole while Donald Trump slams cops for letting demonstrators rip down and burn a monument to General Albert Pike in D.C.
2020-06-21
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • Trump criticized Washington D.C. police Friday after protesters toppled a statue of a Confederate general

  • He said police were 'doing nothing' as the statue of General Albert Pike was torn down and burned

  • Some critics claim Pike was instrumental to the establishment of the Ku Klux Klan

  • Protesters in Raleigh, North Carolina, also tore down Confederate statues on Friday night

  • They dragged the statues through the city's streets before hanging one of them from a street sign

  • Statues fell after millions of Americans celebrated Juneteenth on Friday with a series of peaceful protests

  • Juneteenth commemorates the abolition of slavery and originated in Galveston, Texas

  • Juneteenth is recognized as a holiday in 47 states and Washington D.C., but is not an official federal holiday
Posted by:Skidmark

#7  Destroying public property without consequence gives a lie to all the bullsh*t posturing about “ o one is above the law” since its obvious that a lot of people are above the law if democrats like what they are doing. Why hasn’t t someone asked Biden or Nancy about that? Is it because their access and career might end abruptly?
Posted by: NoMoreBS   2020-06-21 11:44  

#6  If they are destroying someone else’s property then they went from protesters to rioters.
Posted by: Airandee   2020-06-21 11:33  

#5  Did they throw shoes at it too?
Posted by: bbrewer126   2020-06-21 09:47  

#4  Right you are TW. Right you are...
Posted by: M. Murcek   2020-06-21 02:59  

#3  But it’s a legitimate reason to identify and arrest both Antifa/BLM cadres and active fellow travellers, collect biometrics and further trace nodes and networks, even get some jailed who deserve a sharp lesson, hopefully before they go full Black Bloc.
Posted by: trailing wife   2020-06-21 02:50  

#2  I expect a lot of work for statue makers (sculptor is something different) in near future.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2020-06-21 02:47  

#1  Screw the statues at this point. Let the left attack symbols the vast majority are ignorant of.
Posted by: M. Murcek   2020-06-21 02:30  

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