Police officers initially stopped the demonstrators, but after they cleared the area, the protesters returned an finished the job. Two statues of two Confederate soldiers that were part of a larger obelisk were torn down Friday night by protesters in Raleigh, North Carolina. These people should be immediately arrested. Mayor Muriel Bowser and writing: “The DC police are not doing their job as they watched a statue be ripped down and burn. Trump quickly tweeted about the toppling, calling out D.C. Then they set a bonfire and stood around it in a circle as the statue burned, chanting, “No justice, no peace!” and “No racist police!” ![]() ![]() In the nation’s capital, demonstrators toppled the 11-foot (3.4-meter) statue of Albert Pike, the only statue in the city of a Confederate general. In Washington, D.C., and Raleigh, North Carolina, it was another night of tearing down Confederate statues. One died and the other was in critical condition, Harborview Medical Center spokesperson Susan Gregg said. Two men with gunshot wounds arrived in a private vehicle at a hospital at at about 3 a.m. Police released few other details about the shooting. It has been harshly criticized by President Donald Trump, who has tweeted about possibly sending in the military to exert control. In Seattle, authorities were investigating what led to the shooting in the area known as CHOP, which stands for “Capitol Hill Occupied Protest” zone. The crowd threw objects at the officers, but no injuries or arrests were reported, San Francisco Police spokesman Officer Adam Lobsinger said. Police officers responded to the park but didn’t intervene. His statues have been defaced in California for several years by people who said he destroyed tribes and their culture. Serra forced Native Americans to stay at those missions after they were converted or face brutal punishment. Protesters also pulled down the statue of Spanish missionary Junipero Serra, an 18th century Roman Catholic priest who founded nine of California’s 21 Spanish missions and is credited with bringing Roman Catholicism to the Western United States. ![]() national anthem “Star Spangled Banner.” Key owned slaves. Grant also supported the 1868 Republican platform when he won the presidency which called for allowing Black men to continue voting in the South.Īlso torn down in the San Francisco park was a statue of Francis Scott Key, who wrote the U.S. ![]() He married into a slave-owning family, but had no problem fighting to end slavery. president after he was the general who finally beat the Confederates and ended the Civil War. The statues targeted included a bust of Ulysses Grant, who was the U.S. In San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park along the Pacific Ocean, protesters sprayed red paint and wrote “slave owner” on pedestals before using ropes to bring down the statues and drag them down grassy slopes amid cheers and applause. The statues are falling amid continuing anti-racism demonstrations following the May 25 police killing in Minneapolis of George Floyd, the African American man who died after a white police officers pressed his knee on his neck and whose death galvanized protesters around the globe to rally against police brutality and racism.
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