Protesters in some cities target Confederate monuments

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.

As tense protests swelled across the country Saturday into Sunday morning, monuments in Virginia, the Carolinas and Mississippi were defaced. The presence of Confederate monuments across the South — and elsewhere in the United States — has been challenged for years, and some of the monuments targeted were already under consideration for removal.

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

Good, F the South!

...And Frank Rizzo. Having a statue for Frank Rizzo in Philadelphia is like having one for Heinrich Himmler.

That at least makes sense.

What does destroying history have to do with this guys murder. Take it out on the cops. Leave our heritage alone

Makes sense.

So, let's forget about the people who were part of slavery and in turn the fact the slavery ever exsisted. Yea, that makes sense.

Yassssssss

Now do the names of Army bases ...ConfederateTreasonSlaveryRacism

NOT THE PARTICIPATION TROPHIES!

Is that soros out front?

Yaaaay

Again, what does this have to do with an innocent man's death during a police action? Nothing! How did Raum Emanuel put it, 'Never let a crisis go to waste !' Antifa is wasting no time.

Good

Good.

What is common for Atlanta’s CNN Center and confederate monuments ?

Confederate Monuments glorify Slavery. It’s that simple

“Demonstrating”

Not demonstrators. Mob rioters.

Poor things, their feelings are hurt.. boo hoo hoo

Good.

That's one way to get rid of them.

I'm sure the rage from magas regarding statues will be greater than from a cop intentionally killing a man on video.

Surprise, surprise. Monuments to traitorous defenders of slavery are vandalized. Sholuld have been removed and melted down long ago.

You spelled rioters wrong.

Otherwise known as Democrat monuments

Washington and Franklin were Confederates? Can you at least pretend to be honest and not partisan

There should be no confederate monuments in this nation. Oh and you don't have to capitalize 'confederate' that country is dead nobody cares

Democrats got their race war.

As well they should

THIS IS WHITE SUPREMACIST PROPAGANDA, why would you post a story like this, unless you are indeed a WHITE SUPREMACIST RADICAL GROUP? WHO ARE YOU?

sivavaid Fair game

Burn everything confederate to the ground!

They aren’t protesting they are looting

MAGAs love the black people so much that they once fought a war to try to keep them. TrumpisaRacist RacistInChief RacistGOP

Good ! JusticeForGeorgeFlyod JusticeforAhmaudArbery JusticeforBreonnaTaylor

Bring them all down

Tear them down.

AntifaTerrorists ObamaGate

I watched 4 men kill another man. This has nothing to do with Confederate monuments. We have a media owned government that's trying to get rid of our none essential citizens. They accomplish this through civil war. This is nothing new.

So we are going to ignore these rioters burning down stores, cars and other property?

That should make them feel better...those statues can be real mean when they want to be, kinda like trees

They have been standing for way too long anyways, it's time to make them collapse

Riots say it

the Black community , the real racists

When / where did this happen? !!!

Good.

Better than a Target or North Face store.

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