https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.wx...ters-confederate-monuments-hang-pole/32922415
I don’t quite know what to say about all this anymore. Wouldn’t surprise me if this slowly devolves into lynching real people.
Police officers earlier in the evening had foiled the protesters’ previous attempt to use ropes to topple the statues.
But after the officers cleared the area, protesters mounted the obelisk and were able to take down the statues.
They then dragged the statues down a street and used a rope to hang one of the figures by its neck from a light post.
I don’t quite know what to say about all this anymore. Wouldn’t surprise me if this slowly devolves into lynching real people.