After the notorious events in Charlottesville, in which one person was killed and 19 were injured, in several cities decided to accelerate the process of demolition of monuments to confederates.
However, if in Kentucky talking about it as a difficult process in North Carolina , a crowd of protesters just tore down the monument.
In Durham, a few people climbed onto the statue of a soldier of the Confederacy and tied it with a rope. After that, the crowd pulled the rope, and the monument fell. One man ran up and spat on him, and several others began to kick him. The monument was established in 1924.
About detainees is not reported, but the Governor of North Carolina Roy Cooper in response to the incident in Durham, tweeted: «Racism and violence in Charlottesville unacceptable, but there is a better way to remove these monuments.»
#BREAKING Protesters in #Durham topple confederate monument downtown pic.twitter.com/a3BNIavyxC
— Derrick Lewis (@DerrickQLewis) August 14, 2017
In Kentucky, the situation is more calm. There’s only been talk about the demolition of monuments. We are talking about the cities of Baltimore and Lexington.
So, the mayor of Lexington Jim gray announced that he plans to do everything in order to demolish the statue of Confederate General John hunt Morgan and Minister of war John Breckinridge.
«The tragic events in Charlottesville was to make an announcement that I had planned for next week,» wrote gray on his page in Facebook, adding that he will begin active actions on the demolition of statues.
In Baltimore more than a thousand residents took to the streets in solidarity with opponents racists. The mayor, Catherine Pugh told that achieve, to carry all four of the Confederate monument which is in the city.
«She was moving very fast in comparison with the previous mayor, who just published a report on recommendations for the demolition of two statues. Drink will create a task force to begin the process on Wednesday», — said the publication of Vox press Secretary of the mayor of Baltimore, Anthony McCarthy.
But not all cities are planning to do the same. In Richmond, the state of Virginia, decided to leave monuments — even after the events in Charlottesville.
The mayor of Richmond Levar Stoney argues that it is better to add «explanatory signs» to the statues than to demolish them.
«We need to tell the whole truth. I do not think that the demolition of symbols of the Confederacy do something in order to solve the problems of racism in this country,» said Stoney.
Only in United States there are at least 709 of the statues and monuments dedicated to the Confederacy.
