North Carolina Confederate Statue Toppled, Mauled By Angry Mob (VIDEO)

DURHAM, NC — A group of angry anti-fascism activists toppled a century-old statue of a Confederate soldier outside the Durham County Courthouse on Monday evening, according to video reports from the scene. The mob looped a yellow rope around the statue's neck and pulled it down, then surrounded the felled soldier — now bent at its knees — while shouting at it and beating it with their hands and feet, video showed.

“No KKK! No fascist USA!" the crowd chanted as the statue came down.

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The emotional scene in Durham played out in the aftermath of a white-power demonstration in Charlottesville, Virginia, over the weekend that ended in the death of anti-fascism activist Heather Heyer and two state troopers.

According to local news site WRAL, "several men" at Monday's 6 p.m. protest in Durham "used a ladder to reach the top of statue, which had been sprayed with cooking spray by authorities to make it more difficult to climb."

A Facebook invite for the protest called on local anti-fascists to "build a movement to smash white supremacy" and "tear down all white supremacist Confederate statues now!"

White supremacists had been rallying in Charlottesville against the town's decision to remove a statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee, who fought to preserve slavery in America during the Civil War, from a park downtown.

An inscription in the podium of the Durham statue said: "In memory of the boys who wore the gray."

Alissa Ellis, a member of Workers World Party Durham who attended Monday's statue toppling, told the Durham Herald Sun that “Charlottesville and racist monuments across the country are the result of centuries of white supremacy."

She continued: “But we cannot ignore the fact that the current Trump administration has emboldened more nazis, KKK, and white supremacists to target, brutalize, and kill our communities. The White House and its elected white supremacists are just as responsible as hooded klansmen and racist vigilantes for what happened. They have blood on their hands.”

Durham County Sheriff's deputies were reportedly on hand to watch — and videotape — as protesters toppled the Confederate statue on Monday night. Patch has reached out to the sheriff to find out what kind of repercussions, if any, protesters might face; we'll update this post with anything we find out.

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