Police Investigating ‘Unlawful and Dangerous’ Toppling of ‘Silent Sam’ Confederate Statue at UNC By Tyler O’Neil
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On Monday night, a group of roughly 250 violent protesters toppled a Confederate monument from its plinth at the University of North Carolina (UNC)-Chapel Hill. “Silent Sam” commemorated the UNC students who had gone off to fight for the Confederacy in the Civil War.
Protesters had scheduled a rally entitled “Until They All Fall,” for 7 p.m.
According to the flyer, the event would be “a demonstration against institutional white supremacy at UNC, in solidarity with Maya Little on the day of her trial for marking Silent Sam with her own blood.”
In May, UNC Ph.D. student Maya Little — who is black — mixed her own blood with red paint and dashed it on the “Silent Sam” statue. She was arrested for defacing a public monument, and her trial started Monday. “That statue is not a historical object,” Little told The News & Observer. “It’s missing its history. What I did was give it some context.”
UNC’s independent student newspaper, The Daily Tar Heel, shared pictures and video of the protest.
Demonstrators chanted “tear it down!”
The crowd went crazy when Silent Sam fell.
Ph.D. student Samee Siddiqui shared an image of the fallen Silent Sam, where protesters proceeded to bury its head in the dirt. CONTINUE AT SITE
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