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‘Disgrace to our country!’ Trump scolds police, calls for arrests as actvists topple & BURN confederate statue in DC (VIDEO) | ‘Disgrace to our country!’ Trump scolds police, calls for arrests as actvists topple & BURN confederate statue in DC (VIDEO) |
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US President Donald Trump has denounced Washington, DC, police for seemingly doing nothing to prevent a group of activists from bringing down a Confederate general’s statue, calling for the “immediate” arrest of the perpetrators. | US President Donald Trump has denounced Washington, DC, police for seemingly doing nothing to prevent a group of activists from bringing down a Confederate general’s statue, calling for the “immediate” arrest of the perpetrators. |
Videos have emerged showing a group of protesters in the US capital dismantling a statue in honor of Confederate general Albert Pike on Friday evening. Activists made several unsuccessful attempts to tear down the monument, and even had to take a break to review their strategy before eventually knocking the statue from its pedestal – with local police making no attempt to intervene at any point in the endeavour. | Videos have emerged showing a group of protesters in the US capital dismantling a statue in honor of Confederate general Albert Pike on Friday evening. Activists made several unsuccessful attempts to tear down the monument, and even had to take a break to review their strategy before eventually knocking the statue from its pedestal – with local police making no attempt to intervene at any point in the endeavour. |
After the statue came crashing down – to jubilant cheers from the crowd – the activists set it on fire. A video shows one of the protesters pouring what appears to be a flammable liquid onto the burning statue while the rest of the group applauded. At one point, a chant of “No justice, no peace” broke out. | After the statue came crashing down – to jubilant cheers from the crowd – the activists set it on fire. A video shows one of the protesters pouring what appears to be a flammable liquid onto the burning statue while the rest of the group applauded. At one point, a chant of “No justice, no peace” broke out. |
Shortly after the 11-foot high statue – which was the only outdoor sculpture in DC honoring a Confederate general (although he was depicted as a Freemason and not a soldier) – was upended, Trump took a swipe at police for making no attempt to thwart the monument’s destruction. | Shortly after the 11-foot high statue – which was the only outdoor sculpture in DC honoring a Confederate general (although he was depicted as a Freemason and not a soldier) – was upended, Trump took a swipe at police for making no attempt to thwart the monument’s destruction. |
“The D.C. Police are not doing their job as they watch a statue be ripped down & burn,” Trump tweeted, adding that those responsible for the act of vandalism “should be immediately arrested.” | “The D.C. Police are not doing their job as they watch a statue be ripped down & burn,” Trump tweeted, adding that those responsible for the act of vandalism “should be immediately arrested.” |
“A disgrace to our Country,” he thundered. | “A disgrace to our Country,” he thundered. |
General Pike’s statue is one of many that have been vandalized – either spray-painted with graffiti or toppled – within the past several weeks as people protesting police brutality have been on a mission to erase the nation’s Confederate past following the police killing of unarmed black man George Floyd in late May, which sparked the current wave of unrest. | |
On Thursday, a statue of George Washington in Portland, Oregon received similar treatment when it was torn down and draped in a burning US flag. While the latest spate of politically-motivated vandalism has not resulted in injuries, an earlier attempt to raze a monument in Virginia left one demonstrator with a serious head wound, prompting a popular science magazine to publish a comprehensive guide on how to bring monuments down without hurting anyone. It’s unclear if the demonstrators in DC heeded any of the advice from the manual, however. | |
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