{"id":321707,"date":"2017-08-15T03:23:35","date_gmt":"2017-08-15T02:23:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/protesters-tear-down-confederate-statue-outside-north-carolina-courtroom-video\/"},"modified":"2017-08-15T03:23:35","modified_gmt":"2017-08-15T02:23:35","slug":"protesters-tear-down-confederate-statue-outside-north-carolina-courtroom-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/protesters-tear-down-confederate-statue-outside-north-carolina-courtroom-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Protesters tear down Confederate statue outside North Carolina courtroom (VIDEO)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><time class=\"date date_article-header\">Published time: 15 Aug, 2017 01:54 <\/time><\/p>\n<p>        Around 100 protesters in Durham, North Carolina, have toppled a Civil War memorial statue honoring Confederate soldiers. They chanted, \u201cNo cops, no KKK, no fascist USA\u201d and \u201cWe are the revolution\u201d before tying up and destroying the 93-year-old monument.<\/p>\n<div class=\"article__text text  js-mediator-article\">\n<div class=\"arcticle__read-more read-more\">\n<p>Read more<\/p>\n<p>    <a class=\"read-more__link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rt.com\/usa\/399611-trump-tower-protest-charlottesville\/\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n                    <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"read-more__cover\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.rt.com\/files\/2017.08\/thumbnail\/599226ecfc7e9325038b4567.jpg\" alt=\"Protesters wave anti-Trump signs during protests in front of Trump Tower in New York City, New York, U.S., August 14, 2017 \u00a9 Shannon Stapleton\"\/><br \/>\n    <\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p>The gathering started out small Monday evening, WTVD <a href=\"http:\/\/abc11.com\/2308015\/\">reported<\/a>. Demonstrators rallied in solidarity with other nationwide protests; responding to the tragically deadly violence in Charlottesville, Virginia over the weekend. Those protests arose out of the ordered removal of a statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee.<\/p>\n<p>The statue of a generic Confederate soldier outside the courthouse in Durham had an engraving memorializing <em>\u201cthe boys in gray.\u201d<\/em> Activists threw a nylon rope around the soldier and pulled it off its pedestal.<\/p>\n<p>The otherwise peaceful protest saw several people stomping and kicking the statue, which broke into pieces once it was taken down.<\/p>\n<p>Protesters also took aim at President Donald Trump, who initially condemned violence <em>\u201con many sides\u201d<\/em> before specifying hate groups such as the KKK and neo-Nazis.<\/p>\n<p>Once the Durham crowd grew to more than 100, they marched toward the new Durham Police headquarters, which is still being constructed, WTVD reported. They temporarily blocked traffic. Police reportedly kept a distance.<\/p>\n<div class=\"rtcode\"><center><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The racism and deadly violence in Charlottesville is unacceptable but there is a better way to remove these monuments <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/durham?src=hash\">#durham<\/a> &#8211; RC<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Governor Roy Cooper (@NC_Governor) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NC_Governor\/status\/897264444341923840\">August 15, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/center><\/div>\n<p>North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper (D) reacted to the property damage by condemning <em>&#8220;the racism and deadly violence in Charlottesville,&#8221;<\/em> while adding,<em> &#8220;there is a better way to remove these monuments.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/usa\/399617-durham-confederate-statue-protesters\/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=RSS\">RT<\/a>. This piece was reprinted by <a href=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\">RINF Alternative News<\/a> with permission or license.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Published time: 15 Aug, 2017 01:54 Around 100 protesters in Durham, North Carolina, have toppled a Civil War memorial statue honoring Confederate soldiers. They chanted, \u201cNo cops, no KKK, no fascist USA\u201d and \u201cWe are the revolution\u201d before tying up and destroying the 93-year-old monument. Read more The gathering started out small Monday evening, WTVD [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":321691,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-321707","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=321707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321707\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/321691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=321707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=321707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=321707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}