Angry androgynous protester Takiya Thompson was somehow able to scale a North Carolina confederate statue in front of Durham County’s former courthouse Monday night, wrap a strap around it, and jump down so that other protesters could pull it down.
Footage from today's Emergency Protest – Stand in Solidarity with #Charlottesville pic.twitter.com/VxAGjwfXC0
— Tierra Marsh (@tierrammarsh) August 14, 2017
#BREAKING Protesters in #Durham topple confederate monument downtown pic.twitter.com/a3BNIavyxC
— Derrick Lewis (@DerrickQLewis) August 14, 2017
WRAL reports:
Takiya Thompson used a ladder used a ladder to scale the podium on which the Confederate Soldiers Monument stood, then climbed the statue and wrapped a strap around it so other protesters could pull it down.
“Let me be clear, no one is getting away with what happened. We will find the people responsible,” Andrews said during an afternoon news conference. “We can all agree yesterday went too far. Yesterday was not the Durham that I know.”
Durham County Sheriff Mike Andrews said Tuesday that his deputies were working to identify others involved in the incident and plan to pursue felony charges against them.
Some protest organizers defended their actions Tuesday, calling the monument a symbol of oppression and racism.
“I’m tired of white supremacy keeping its foot on my neck and the necks of people who look like me,” Thompson said at a separate news conference. “That statue glorifies the conditions that oppressed people live in, and it had to go.”
Woman who climbed a Confederate monument in Durham and helped bring it down stands by her actions. Tonight on #WRAL. pic.twitter.com/EMBt1zPPTm
— Adam Owens (@AdamOwensTV) August 15, 2017
BREAKING: Takiya Thompson, woman who admits to climbing and helping bring down a Confederate statue in Durham, is arrested. #WRAL pic.twitter.com/vfoIsnhwRj
— Adam Owens (@AdamOwensTV) August 15, 2017
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— Josh Caplan (@joshdcaplan) August 15, 2017
You know….all this nefarious activity is going to have no other result than swinging the pendulum even further away from the democratic base. Their quest to bring the “drain the swamp” side of things down will in the end cause it to become stronger.
The folks in North Carolina aren’t stupid. The police will stand there smiling and yucking it up while the spoilt brats throw their tantrums. Many of these so called ‘protesters’ are probably rich kids or affirmative actions attending Duke University.
Then, after everything has calmed down, the police quietly put on the cuffs and hand out the fines – their community service will be to reinstate the statue they destroyed. I hope that is videoed too.
I see a bunch of children coming to the realization they’ve been lied to their whole lives and then taking the blue pill.