RICHMOND, Va. — Protesters demonstrating against the death of George Floyd, a handcuffed black man who pleaded for air as a white police officer pressed his knee on his neck, targeted Confederate monuments in multiple cities.Saturday into Sunday morning, monuments in Virginia, the Carolinas and Mississippi were defaced.
The words “spiritual genocide,” along with red handprints, were painted on the sides of a Confederate monument on the University of Mississippi campus Saturday,moving the statue — installed in 1906 and a rallying point in 1962 for people who rioted to oppose the university’s court-ordered integration — from a central spot to a Civil War cemetery that’s in a more secluded location on campus, but the state College Board has delayed action.
Critics have said its display near the university’s main administrative building sends a signal that Ole Miss glorifies the Confederacy and glosses over the South’s history of slavery.near The Battery, a historic area on the coastal city’s southern tip. The base of the Confederate Defenders statue, erected in 1932, was spray-painted, including with the words “BLM” and “traitors,” news outlets reported. It was later covered with tarp, photos show.
In North Carolina, the base of a Confederate monument at the State Capitol was marked with a black X and a shorthand for a phrase expressing contempt for police, according to a
Funny that this one is never mentioned.
And What would that help or plunder mam and pap shops
Who...?
crazytimes73 I’m not generally for violence. But I’d love to tear the damned things down.
Awesome 😊
Yes, let’s destroy history. Then let’s make everyone believe the same thing. Otherwise, we’ll shame, excommunicate, and extradite from society. I think I’ve read this book. ✌️
Pull them all down! They were sessionist traitors who should've been hung.
Good.
All clouds have silver linings.
Anyone who is against ANTIFA is a Fascist. Anyone who is against BlackLivesMatter is a racist.
I didn’t know 7/11 and the Mall of America were symbols of confederacy. The only racism left alive is in the hearts of gender studies leftists, rotting them alive like cancer.
Fine.
Aight i’m not down with the burning buildings and stealing but THIS is some vandalism I can get behind
As they should it’s not even apart of this countries history it was a whole other country... take them down
Good they shouldn’t be there anyway nikkihaley
As they should!!!
Good. Monuments to traitors should not be allowed on US soil.
LeslieMarshall GOOD! THOSE MONUMENTS TO LOSER RACISTS SHOULD ALL BE DESTROYED! THEY ARE NOT HISTORY! THEY ARE HATE MONUMENTS FOR WHINEY WHITE PEOPLE WHO ARE STILL BUTTHURT 155 YEARS LATER! THEY CAN ALL
GOOD! Now make sure to target Trump’s properties & BURN them!
Why are there monuments to traitors from a foreign nation? What a great opportunity for these municipalities to show good Will and tear down these eyesores.
TeresaMWalker Founding fathers are next
Floyd was felon who deserved what he got
About damned time. There are no momentum to Hitler in Germany. There are momentum to Stalin but then again, look where they are.
Good. Bout time
Hell yeah tear em all down
Protestors taking a stand? You mean domestic terrorists. Screen shot your headline so when these criminals finally start getting shot I can say cops finally took a stand
Remove the racist monuments!
The CIVIL WAR was not fought by the south for states rights or individual freedom that was all BS written by southern Historians to make it look like it was a noble cause ....the real reason was white supremacy and slavery THIS quote says it all..trying to rewrite history
Everybody look what's going down. The media is changing the narrative.
Had underlying structural defects. Would've fallen over and been smashed to bits on its own. No ones fault really.
Good.
Good. I wrote this for the racist losers who think those need to keep standing:
Good. Way past time.
Symbols of slavery should be targeted.
Prof_Tweeper
Good
There is not one good excuse for any of these monuments to stand. Remove them all.
As they should be.
Sounds like a logical thing to protest.
Looting stores - wrong, there’s no other way to spin that Destroying monuments that honor our shameful history of enslaving an entire race of people- tear that shit down. They never should’ve been erected in the first place. The fact that they’re still up in 2020 is a disgrace.
Oh good.
Good.
You fucking love to see it
Opponents are traitors who are exploited. They passively destroy the country. At least they are not patriotic. Robbery, injury, vandalism, incitement to riots. This is not a march, not a protest. This is a robber.
Beautiful
TakeEmDownRVA See some of my pictures of the Confederate monuments in this tweet from early this morning GeorgeFloyd BlackLivesMatter Richmond
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Tear them all down. BlackLivesMatter
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Miriam2626 I was born in Alabama, but Tear That Shit Down. We have MonumentsToRascism and slavery in this country. Those icons must be destroyed. You cannot hide racism in a closet it will always get out to stir HateandBigotry Over and Over Again. DestroyTheRacistMonuments
More meaningful and constructive than looting target
Fuck the confederate monuments
But I thought the white nationalists were the ones rioting...
Hell yeah smash all of them
Democrats paid to have those statues erected.
You misspelled rioters
Oh yeah, one guy fucks up and it's the statue's fault. Open fire on the dregs of society so we can free up the tax dollar for better things than whining miscreants.
AP is on a race baiting tangent like no other.
We should definitely erase history so we can repeat it. This country was built with a certain history, you can’t change that in 2020.
TAKE THE MONUMENTS TO HATRED DOWN! How can we ever move forward as a nation with ugly hate standing in the town square?
nycsouthpaw Actual PEOPLE are under attack. Screw these statues that are a testament to human bondage.
Good
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Here is why this is isn’t the answer in my opinion. We have to embrace our past. Teach about it and make sure we don’t hide it. Otherwise we will or could experience it again.
Good, go bust up that shit and not your neighbor’s own businesses and the stores they need...
If you're gonna destroy something... This is justified as opposed to damaging private property and small business.
Should the riots this weekend be considered mass murder due to the spread of COVID?
Do the same as PepsiCo & TheDemocrats swamp did to me Offer money to relatives & friends of dnc protesters, so they put charges on them, everyday stuff like, domestic violence, murder attempt, sexual assault, etc ----------- GOP WaysandMeansGOP HouseGOP SenateGOP POTUS
Racism is still alive and kicking while new modes of slavery are being introduced
Stand with Minnesota!!! Free Minnesota!
Can we get a list of the complaints filed against that officer? Were they all from blacks, or all excessive force ? If so, that whole department needs to be investigated and audited! Violent protests only hurt the innocent -clean it up from the inside!
Классно
Good.
Burn. It. Down.
That would be the radical arm of the Democratic Party terrorist groups, Antifa and Black Lives Matter. Perhaps George Soros organizations aren't the only ones behind these riots. Maybe Obama and the Democrats have a hand in it, too.
Hell yeah! About time!
Good
One could care less, knock them all down
Headline correction: all states struggle with the legacy of slavery
The only Confederate flag that ever came close to mattering was the white flag of surrender 🏳 ResignNowTrump
Why isn't BLM protesting all the deaths of blacks by blacks in Newark, Baltimore , Chicago , Detroit etc? BTW Slavery saved their Ancestors Lives . The Benin Empire would sacrifice them if their wasn't a market. They should thank God the South grew cotton.
That would be a start
Good
More monuments 2 this Civil War hero are needed.
Now that is a cause I can rally behind.
Please target the monument to the confederate cavalry in Colorado that perpetrated the Sand Creek Massacre! It’s right out front the CO Capitol and had no fucking business being there.
Every time you see a video or picture of people being brutally beaten or killed in these riots. Remember these celebrities encourage violence by offering to pay $millions to anyone arrested. SteveCarell JanelleMonae CynthiaNixon Sethrogen jtimberlake chrissyteigen
Good.
GoodTrouble
If by 'long a source of tension' you mean 'a source of tension since January 2017', then yeah.
Should swing by any Democrats to protest as well since they are the party that gave us slavery
Target must be a southern thing.
MAGAs love the black people so much that they once fought a war to try to keep them. TrumpisaRacist RacistInChief RacistGOP
Good. Take that sh!t down.
What happened to George Floyd, was very, very painful. BlackLivesMatter icantbreathe
YES! This is good. Tear them all down.
Good
lynnskyi good morning Lynn...
nycsouthpaw Good
Sherman is the man!
Yeah they can tear down those symbols of treason but let’s not destroy the rest of these cities ...
nycsouthpaw The protesters need to do better, at least in Richmond. This regularly happens. They just scrub the graffiti off and carry on.
Bull. Just an excuse. This is now an excuse to loot and riot.
So then... the protestors are not white supremacists?
As a great x5 grandson of a Confederate soldier — tear them all the f— down...
This isn't about floyd anymore. This is typical far left groups rioting to be rioting.
Mario Lemieux was what? You are lying to the people, you are sick.
I'm okay with this. They should be a museum as relics of the violence of racism and to preserve the memory of sins of the past. Reminders, yes, but in a museum, not glorified in public spaces.
Its a coordinated strategy... this is the Soros Mob that Obama built.
and the police protecting a racist monument tells you all you need to know and ppl wonder why.
If the rationale for keeping up statues of traitors is that they represent our history then shouldn't seeing them fall in disgrace just be treated like a historical reenactment?
nycsouthpaw Good
It's history. It was a hell of a battle. I would not touch it.
Awesome!
nycsouthpaw Imagine if the Nazis still glorified their leaders like Republicans glorify their Nazi leaders.
Good
nycsouthpaw
George who?
Good
nycsouthpaw GOOD
Yea tell me again how “white supremacy” groups are doing this 🙄 SOROS
They want to erase history unless it's theirs
It's not only the racist police in power that we have to worry about, it's the white, liberal Hillary Clinton supporter walking her dog in Central Park.
not protestors, not organic, not real
Eh this doesn’t bother me. I don’t understand why there are monuments to the losing side anyway.
Liberal mindset is disturbing!
Bout time. We really don't need to honor and memorialize a bunch of traitors who threw a hissy fit because we told them to stop 'owning' (forced labor, unjust imprisonment, beatings, rape, torture, starvation, murder) other people.
That's antifa, funded by GEORGE SOROS
Calling out all U. Toms to do what’s right in November
Drag them to the ground.
The confederacy was an anti-American insurgency. If these toothless hicks loved America as much as they like to act like they do, the statues would’ve never been there in the first place.
Bullshit this has nothing to do with the killing of a black man. That is part of American history. It was a black time in our history. Leave the monument's alone.
It’s Democratic run cities.Its an agenda! wakeup riots2020
BS these fruit cakes was targeted years ago-AP always spinning the truth
FFS! 1 guy gets killed by 1 cop, and people lose their shit. How about the over 100,000 Americans that were just murdered by China No one fucking cares
Confederate Monuments is a symbol of Democrats History. So burn it down. Destroy it. And change history 🔥🔥🔥
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Модныймишка：まあ香港にて学生が過激で犯罪が多く近づくのが危ない際には麻酔銃の使用は人命に問題ないので被害や損害を抑止する目的ならば、合法的妥当措置と言えますね🌹まずは中国が手本を世界に発信しなければなりません!合理的な映像証拠と共に報道すれば、同じような破壊行動が抑制されますね
If you get up at 6 am, make a sign, and go stand out side chanting, that is a protest. If its after dark, you put on your steel toed boots, leave your ID at home, and slam a few before going out with no sign, with the intent of hitting up Target, thats a riot.
One wonders why there are any left to topple.
Good, nomonumentsfortraitors
'taking a stand'?
Awesome! Keep up the amazing work!
All happening in liberal cities. Those cowardice Democratic policies and leadership are being seen by all of us.
Good for them.
Antifa are fascists. Ironic isn’t it?
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