{"id":5880,"date":"2020-06-11T06:01:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-11T03:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/protesters-in-virginia-behead-confederate-monument-statues\/"},"modified":"2020-06-11T06:01:00","modified_gmt":"2020-06-11T03:01:00","slug":"protesters-in-virginia-behead-confederate-monument-statues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/protesters-in-virginia-behead-confederate-monument-statues\/","title":{"rendered":"#Protesters in Virginia behead Confederate monument statues"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Protesters in Virginia behead Confederate monument statues<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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June 10, 2020 |<\/span> 11:01pm <\/p>\n

\n Protesters in Virginia beheaded four Confederate statues and pulled down another with a tow rope on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n

Photos and videos posted on Twitter<\/a> showed a demonstrator taking a sledgehammer to the head of one of the statues on the Portsmouth Confederate monument, which was built in the late 1800s and is said to sit at a site where slaves were whipped.<\/p>\n

The Portsmouth City Council had set a July 28 hearing to decide on the monument\u2019s fate following demands that it be moved, according to local outlet 13News<\/a> Now.<\/p>\n

But protesters took matters into their own hands, gathering at the monument and covering it in black, green and red spray paint on Wednesday afternoon.<\/p>\n

They wrote \u201cBlack Lives Matter\u201d and the name of George Floyd, the black Minneapolis man whose police-involved death touched off a global reckoning over racial injustice.<\/p>\n

The crowd grew by 8 p.m., and one person dumped a bucket of yellow paint on the monument, while others threw water bottles at it, according to The Virginian-Pilot.<\/p>\n

One clip showed a man tying a tow rope to one of the statues, pulling it down as music played and protesters chanted.<\/p>\n

A protester was injured as the statue fell and medics worked to help him before police cleared the area, according to the newspaper.<\/p>\n

The rope app<\/a>arently snapped, but protesters continued to try to tear the statues down, including by using bolt cutters.<\/p>\n

The demonstrators handed a sword and rifle ripped from the monument to 73-year-old Vietnam veteran John Hooks.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m a mixed bag of emotions,\u201d Hooks told the Pilot. \u201cThis is where they sold us into slavery.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cYou\u2019ve kept your foot in our neck for 401 damn years,\u201d he added. \u201cWhen are you going to get the hell off?\u201d<\/p>\n

Later, an American flag was lit on fire and tied to the monument.\n <\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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