Protesters' signs, including one that reads, "I miss my dad," are displayed at Black Lives Matter Plaza near the White House in Washington on Friday, June 19, 2020, during Juneteenth, the holiday celebrating the day in 1865 that enslaved Black people in Galveston, Texas, learned they had been freed from bondage, more than two years after the Emancipation Proclamation.
Cheering demonstrators jumped up and down as the 11-foot statue of Albert Pike — wrapped with chains — wobbled on its high granite pedestal before falling backward, landing in a pile of dust. Protesters then set a bonfire and stood around it in a circle as the statue burned, chanting, “No justice, no peace!” and “No racist police!”Eyewitness accounts and videos posted on social media indicated that police were on the scene but didn’t intervene.
The statue, dedicated in 1901, was located in Judiciary Square about half a mile from the U.S. Capitol. It was built at the request of Masons who successfully lobbied Congress to grant them land for the statue as long as Pike would be depicted in civilian, not military, clothing.
After ~30 (!) years of asking, proposing, lobbying, rallying, suggesting, cajoling, requesting, demonstrating, arguing, begging, offering, recommending ... citizens did what citizens do, removed a traitor KKK-statue from “Judiciary” Square - BlackLivesMatter
TheBlackChannel That statue looks like the Jeepers Creepers monster from that angle!
Great now they’ll fake an alien invasion
We the people are being victims of loons.
They are not protesting, they are socialists destroying America.
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Surprising background of AlbertPike: defender of NativeAmericans, poet, explorer, soldier:
Because this is an election year, no one wants to be called a racist if they try and stop all this. There are too many votes on the line. It will continue until the presidential election is over and then Trump will step in, if he's reelected. The face of America is suffering.
That same group is flying to Poland with plans to burn down the Auschwitz death camp, because they would prefer to erase a history of evil than be reminded of it.
Well they should probably do the same for pikes market.
THAT'LL SHOW EM!!🙄
I don’t give a damn about how controversial it was, Congress needs to stand up now and say enough! This is pure BS. You don’t riot status down if you want to be a legitimate person who is “offended” by it. Most likely every single person there are from out of town. This is sick!
Instead of tearing down objects, how about building community centers and help those with what they need to survive, educate, and ultimately vote? Wouldn’t that be more productive? Or is that too much work? Why doesn’t the law apply to you?
So long general. Next?
(1) Remove it through legal actions or other proper procedures. (2) the action here is called “vandalism”.
Every Police Officer in Colorado should walk off the job. The democrats eliminated qualified immunity for Police. Did they also eliminate immunity for Politicians and Judges? Time to vote all the dems out of office
Nope. A source of controversy 1 day.
Black Olives Matter!!!
You can't call Americans racist with symbols of the civil war to end slavery and all the white lives lost to free black people
Albert Pike: A Democrat, Satanist, Founder of KKK. But I repeat myself. LisaMei62 JuliansRum
TheBlackChannel 'Controversy'!? You see how the WS media operates on a daily basis🤦🏾.
They realize it is subject to them. Otherwise, nobody would touch a statue of a Freemason. It a a seeing thru an Eye, Eye thing.
Ut ohhh, looks like they'll be coming for you guys eventually
These arent protesters. Theyre idiots hell bent in any reason to destroy anything. Maybe a statue will fall on one or more of them.
Finally, a statue worthy of bringing down. Albert Pike was indeed an evil S.O.B. and all this mayhem going on is nearly textbook reenactment of his own fantasy's and writings.
I blame the parents. parentingtips
TheBlackChannel my stepfather was a mason and I always wondered what type of shit they but when I asked him he said he could never say. I even thought about joining for awhile. I'm glad I didn't.
So, we have an actual state called Washington and then we have the District of Columbia. Let's fucking stop calling D.C. Washington. Thank you. 🙄
*rioters
Won’t see captain pike no more
I'm a lifelong Elvis Presley fan and one of my favorite songs of his is 'An American Trilogy'. Are they going to go after music next? If so I fear for Country and Western music.
All the racists, dead or alive, have to go.
It's only a statue remove all the statues from public places and place them in museums
a pogrom against white historical men It wont rub out history Let bygone be bygone Different era n generation
This statue went down in the smoke Broken, and it cried “Lord! Forgive me, help me to get up again, change my heart!” © Rudel Simon - Poet
Not surprised!!
TheBlackChannel So Mote It Be. /G\\
Sounds like DC needs to be its own state so that it can take care of these issues by itself. DCStatehood PeacefulProtests blacklivesmatter
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Democrats and their confederate statutes
The Confederate Flag represents Domestic Terrorism. The Confederate Generals were Domestic Terrorist.
Like what are they accomplishing? How it helps black community? Seriously! How ? 😂
'Protesters' 🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡
Well hell, that ought to fix everything, because nothing says things have changed like a toppled inanimate object.
They fucked with the freemasons. That’s some serious shit. They even put stuff on the back of the declaration of independence
Idiots all over the world. Hopefully these criminals are taken to court and given prison sentences and huge fines. If they can't pay, take their possessions and sell them at auction
General Ulysses Grant said of the Confederacy never had he seen a people fight so bravely and so nobly for so evil a cause.
Ulysses S Grant's statue was also torn down, just so you know they don't care if you fought for the Confederate side or the Union side, all of history must be erased.
just what if true enemies of the U.S. with sleeper cells are waiting for our country to implode so they can come in an finish us all off ...
Albert Pike also helped in starting the kkk, brung freemasonry to the U.S, was a satanist, and stared the Democrat party
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