Poll of the Day > 22 y/o FEMALE Protester is ARRESTED for taking down the CONFEDERATE Statue!!!

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22 y/o Takiyah Thompson who took part in the toppling of the Confedeerate statue with a group of protesters in North Carolina has been arrested and is facing several charges.

Democrat Governor Roy Cooper has already said that he wants ALL of the Confederate Momuments around the state taken down in the state.

He said "We cannot continue to glorify a war against the United States of America fought in the defense of slavery. These monuments should come down"

Protesters were recorded using a rope to take down a statue in North Carolina as they cheered after taking it down and began stomping and spitting on it

Takiyah said she was right to take it down to take down white supremacy.

She is now charged with disorderley conduct by injury to a statue and participation in a riot with property damage in excess of 1500 and inciting others to riot

During her arrest, protesters called for authorities to drop the charges as Takiyah said "The people decided to take matters into our own hands and remove the statue. We are tired of waiting on politicians who could have voted to remove the white supremacist statues years ago but they failed to act, so we acted"

Sheriff Mike Andrews now says the protesters who toppled the century old ugly statue would face felony charges and said "No one is getting away with this|

The Confederate Solders Monument, dedicated in 1924, stood in front of an old courthouse that houses local government offices.

The crumpled and dented bronze statue is now in a warehouse for storage.

The destruction of these statues is in respose of the Virginia attack where racists and the alt-right protested over the removal of General Robert E Lee statue that left 1 woman dead

More Local and State statues announced they would remove statues and other imagery from public land as it started with the murder of 9 black parishioners from nazi Dylann Roof who is now facing the death penalty. Then Republica Governor Nikki Haley started the movement to take down monuments after a tearful statement to have them taken out of the public eye

Do you support Takiyah and other protesters taking down these statues?

Takiyah -

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2017/08/16/01/434881F100000578-4791662-image-a-8_1502841895623.jpg

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2017/08/16/01/4347DCAD00000578-4791662-Thompson_was_arrested_Tuesday_by_Durham_County_sheriff_s_deputie-a-1_1502844104810.jpg

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2017/08/16/01/43480A9600000578-4791662-image-a-10_1502841906099.jpg

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2017/08/16/01/4342FE0300000578-4791662-image-a-14_1502841971567.jpg

Other statues vandalized -

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2017/08/16/01/4341A60E00000578-4791662-On_Sunday_a_statue_commemorating_John_B_Castleman_who_served_on_-a-2_1502844105200.jpg

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/1/2017/08/15/23/wire-1143213-1502837825-957_634x705.jpg
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Commit crime, go to jail.

I'd ban.... oh wait... no I wouldn't.
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Why are all of the protestors who took down that statue so fat?
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No. If you want it gone, then protest peacefully and petition it. Don't go around vandalizing property.
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erasing history is always a good idea.
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I support the statues coming down, but not through vandalism.
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Nade Duck posted...

erasing history is always a good idea.

tbh, if we erase history we're able to be surprised when it repeats itself.
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Zeus posted...

Nade Duck posted...

erasing history is always a good idea.

tbh, if we erase history we're able to be surprised when it repeats itself.

Like that old saying goes I guess, "Those who do not learn from History, are doomed to repeat it" or something I guess.

IMO You can be ashamed or whatever of you or your countries past, yes, however, do NOT try to remove it, censor it, or make it seem like it never happened, All you'll end up doing is potentially causing some idiot in the future to not know about your bad past, and end up causing it to be repeated in some way shape or form.....
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XlaxJynx007 posted...

No. If you want it gone, then protest peacefully and petition it. Don't go around vandalizing property.

Not realistic. North Carolina passed this weird law against putting monuments in museums or ever moving them to a "less prominent" location.
http://ncleg.net/EnactedLegislation/Statutes/HTML/BySection/Chapter_100/GS_100-2.1.html

You could say they should just vote for someone to remove that law, but North Carolina's voter suppression is legendary.
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/05/north-carolina-gerrymandering/527592/
http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2017/04/12/north_carolina_republicans_dilute_governor_s_power_and_curtail_voting_rights.html
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Lightning Bolt posted...

XlaxJynx007 posted...

No. If you want it gone, then protest peacefully and petition it. Don't go around vandalizing property.

Not realistic. North Carolina passed this weird law against putting monuments in museums or ever moving them to a "less prominent" location.
http://ncleg.net/EnactedLegislation/Statutes/HTML/BySection/Chapter_100/GS_100-2.1.html

You could say they should just vote for someone to remove that law, but North Carolina's voter suppression is legendary.
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/05/north-carolina-gerrymandering/527592/
http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2017/04/12/north_carolina_republicans_dilute_governor_s_power_and_curtail_voting_rights.html

That doesn't give people the right to vandalize property.
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Nade Duck posted...

erasing history is always a good idea.

You can remember history without glorifying it. If it's truly and important historical artifact, maybe it should be in a museum. Granted it wasn't hers to destroy so she should be arrested, but removing the statues isn't necessarily erasing history.

XlaxJynx007 posted...

That doesn't give people the right to vandalize property.

Yes it does. Having your voice suppressed is 100% grounds for taking action yourself, and the fact that they did it without hurting anybody is admirable.

Also, for what it's worth, breaking a statue and pushing the resulting case to a court that has the power to overturn laws might be the only way for some North Carolinians to actually affect the law. I doubt these people had that in mind though.
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EightySeven posted...

Nade Duck posted...

erasing history is always a good idea.

You can remember history without glorifying it. If it's truly and important historical artifact, maybe it should be in a museum. Granted it wasn't hers to destroy so she should be arrested, but removing the statues isn't necessarily erasing history.

Both of these. Keep teaching the history in museums and classes and the like, because history is important, but statues don't teach history. Statues just say "this guy was awesome!", and typically don't give any story beyond that. When a more comprehensive understanding of history reveals that the guy in question was not awesome, keeping the statue up in lieu of replacing or removing the monument is in fact suppressing that lack of awesomeness, and promoting an incomplete understanding of history.

And while taking the statue down may be the right thing to do, it is still vandalism, and should still be treated accordingly. Laws don't stop being laws just because they suck. There's a process for that which does need to be followed. When the laws eventually stop sucking, those arrested for such vandalism should be pardoned, but until then, the law is what it is, and should not be arbitrarily ignored.
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I used to agree that taking these statues down would be tantamount to trying to erase history, but after reflection I started to realize that keeping these statues up really would be equivalent to Germany keeping statues of Nazis in public places. These sorts of things have no business being put up on public property.

As for this situation specifically, yes, she committed a crime and should be charged appropriately, but I can't say I'm really outraged by this. Wasn't this statue in front of a courthouse, too? Because if it was, that just makes its placement all the more fucked up.

mrduckbear posted...

22 y/o Takiyah Thompson who took part in the toppling of the Confedeerate statue with a group of protesters in North Carolina has been arrested and is facing several charges.
Do you support Takiyah and other protesters taking down these statues?

I support them being removed but this isn't the right way and is grossly misinterpreting the idea of 'peaceful protest'.
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