While much of the country celebrated Independence Day Saturday, protesters in Baltimore toppled a statue of Christopher Columbus and threw it into the Inner Harbor, CNN affiliate WBAL reported.
Louis Krauss, who shared video of the toppling, said there were at least 300 people gathered at the scene. "After it toppled over the statue broke into several pieces, which were then dragged across the plaza and dumped into the Inner Harbor," Krauss told CNN.The statue has stood by Little Italy for more than 30 years and is the latest to come down in recent weeks amid protests.
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More examples of why Trump was right about Baltimore
Good. Get rid of all these stupid monuments and then get rid of the losers that worship them and can't function without their Confederate safe spaces.
Yeah probably motivated by this news channel, buttwods.
Ridiculous❗️Thugs, bored, vandals, lock them up❗️
It’s ok they all those people on video from camera 10 years in jail let’s see who going to be laughing when nobody vist them
makeamericafreefromracisminequality America must deny the acceptance of Slavery!
Stupid
these young people are going to have a really hard time when they find out that the first three harry potter films and the first two home alone movies were directed by chris columbus and produced by 1492 pictures.
Columbus did not kill any native Americans and he did not enslave any Africans. He never made it to North America. Almost all indigenous people’s deaths were at the hands of the Catholic Church.
Who is liable for destruction of private/public property and sculptor’s statue? Taxpayers?
Hey Columbus was not perfect, but you would not be living here if he did not explore the world. Also most of the indigenous deaths were at the hands of the Catholic Church.
Reminiscent of this statue toppling, but I don't hear cons criticizing these citizens for tearing down monuments
When is this going to stop? Why isn't anyone stopping this? Just shameful. Assholes.
You must be so proud.
There is a division in our nation between those educated and those uneducated and indoctrinated! Someone attacking a statue commemorating a map maker discovering north and South America is definitely the latter
So i guess destruction of public property is not a crime anymore.
CNN instigates anarchism.
CNN should be saying that this gathering will boost contamination of coronavirus - right?
Would love to see CNN focus on the many and not the few...just once.
Fake news from the past - know as history - will be rewritten. European invaders and conquerors can no longe be called “discoverers”.Put it in the museum with the right subtitles: “Columbus was a contracted sailor who worked in the interest of the Spanish and Portuguese Crowns
Arrest them!
Democrats are the American Isis.
Did they arrest the criminals or give them a free college education.
You people are out of control.
I wonder when the big push to change the name of the country America will start, or has no one realized where the name came from?
sounds true any suggestion
the protesters should be fined for littering
Lock them up! 10 years in prison! A federal crime!
I don’t care. 140 THOUSAND people are dead
I thought cnn liked these stuffs
Arrest those mother fuckers Now!!
Today statues, tomorrow, books, libraries, book stores, museums, archives, universities...
If Columbus was still alive today, he’d be really old. Other than that, probably alone living under a bridge. For his time, he was both brilliant and an SOB. SOBs generally die young.
Those are thugs not peaceful protesting. CNN
In 2020 around 2:22, Columbus is again sailing the ocean blue...🤣😂😂
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Keep giving your tax base reasons to leave Baltimore.
And CNN applauds...
I'm sure CNN showed this on air. We all noticed you didn't show Trump's Independence speech to the nation, his announcement of the new statues of heroes, the Patriotic songs, and the Flyover.
Where's a sniper when you need one. :)
Good, fuck Christopher Columbus. He didn’t even discover America first.
Good on them! Protecting this countries indigenous people! Columbus is deserved to fall! As does Reagan!
Soooooo are they going to burn their declarion of independence because of the names on it. Thus revoking their own country they are oh so proud to be.......american? 🤔
And everything is better now.
Father forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing.
So BLM, the DNC , and the Nazi’s are all one snd the same
Throw them all in jail. including the Mayor and Governor
When you are done toppling these statues have you changed the mind off those that racially abuse you? NO
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Good .3 hot and a cot coming right up.
Just gos to show how stupid they really are, not worth the air to keep them alive ,death to them all black or white protesters, and to their family a that they come from.
Put the statues in a museum
Arrest these low lifes!
Good More Marxist Communist will find their way to prison, good look with your ideologies inside. Better pick the right car LOL.. you think there is racism on the streets.
These people should be arrested and charged. There's no excuse for this kind of lawless mob behavior.
Those “protesters” are doing the real Independence Day celebrations. What realDonaldTrump and the likes of him are doing is committing treason and encouraging a civil war.
Guessing Lewis and Clark monuments are next
How did these statues come about? Ever wonder?
Show the whole thing!! Viewers can see and judge!!
A mostly pasty white crowd of Marxist tearing up a mostly black city WEIRD
Wonder what would happen if I toppled an MLK statue? 🤔
Good. Columbus actually discovered the Caribbean. Scandinavian vikings were probably in the east coastfirst.
A great number of losers gathered, broke the law, and not a single coronavirus was passed.
Lock them up!!
Do in about a few years there will be no evidence of all the ordeal and punishment that the blacks went through centuries in USA will be wiped out And at that point no one can complain about the blacks were not treated equally Hmmmm.... interesting!!!!
Biden took a knee to those people.
Good job you idiots...now you can spend at least ten years in a federal penitentiary...I think you would like the climate in cuba, at the quantanimo resort there on the beach...! Might need mosquito repellent though...if it is available, which it is not...can you spell malaria ?!
Protesters? No. These are criminals destroying public property. Want the statues removed, do it the democratic and civil way. Stop destroying our civilized society. There are processes for this.
Maybe if he lived during our times, he’d be different. But his statue should be relegated to the past.
Their parents must be proud
It’s Baltimore & no one cares.
I bet they all took Columbus Day off from work!
This has gone too far! It must stop
How about putting up statues of natives & slaves. Not slave masters. The slaves actually put in the sweat, by force, to build the America you enjoy so much. Instead, we put statues of the person with the WHIP. Hitler would be proud.
In all seriousness....politics aside...do these people not have families or jobs or hobbies?
Pull down every damn statue in the country. Nothing should stand. Start on government buildings next.
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