Arrests made as protests converge over toppled Confederate statue

[DonViejo]

Source: CNN



By Joe Sterling, CNN

Updated 1:14 PM ET, Sat August 25, 2018

(CNN) - Supporters and opponents of the recent toppling of a Confederate monument in North Carolina turned out in Chapel Hill on Saturday to assert their stances.

Seven arrests were made in connection to a gathering on McCorkle Place, the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill media relations office said. "Three arrests were for assault, the fourth for destruction of property and the fifth arrest for resisting an officer. The sixth arrest was for assault, destruction of property and inciting a riot. We are awaiting information on charges for the seventh arrest," the school said.

The rival rallies came after 250 protesters knocked over the University of North Carolina's controversial "Silent Sam" Confederate statue at the school on Monday night.

On Saturday people congregated at and near the spot where the statue was torn down, news footage showed. Police were on the scene in numbers as people held banners, chanted and marched. Confederate flags could be seen.

Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2018/08/25/us/unc-silent-sam-confederate-statue/index.html

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1. Whether confederates, klansmen or nazis

these trumpist right-wingers have quite a knack for trying (and failing) to revive the losing sides. And they wonder why the world thinks they're so stupid.

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2. LOSER STATUE

After they lost the civil war they losers have been trying to make the war into a holy war. Finally, people know better, and they are trying to CORRECT the wrong and erase the WRONG. The south will rise to protect the WRONG including their pRESIDENT.......RESIST........VOTE BLUE

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3. Unless people forget

This is what was said at the dedication speech after the statue was first erected:

I trust I may be pardoned for one allusion, howbeit it is rather personal. One hundred yards from where we stand, less than ninety days perhaps after my return from Appomattox, I horse-whipped a negro wench until her skirts hung in shreds, because upon the streets of this quiet village she had publicly insulted and maligned a Southern lady, and then rushed for protection to these University buildings where was stationed a garrison of 100 Federal soldiers. I performed the pleasing duty in the immediate presence of the entire garrison, and for thirty nights afterwards slept with a double-barrel shot gun under my head.