THE RIOTER WHO CLIMBED ON THE LEE STATUE IN DURHAM AND PUT THE STRAP IN PLACE TO PULL IT DOWN HAS BEEN CHARGED WITH MULTIPLE FELONIES.

The Sheriff of Durham was strongly criticized, particularly in law enforcement circles, for having his officers stand by and watch the commission of these felonies, and others. His position was that if his officers had moved in to prevent the damage then people would be injured.

Rank and file police officers find it disturbing that officers were directed to stand by and observe felonies in progress, and take no action to make arrests.

Takiya Thompson, the rioter who attached the strap to the statue, identified herself as a member of the Worker's World Party, a communist party in the United States, founded in 1959 by a group led by Sam Marcy of the Socialist Workers Party.

One would hope that other rioters will also be identified and charged.


Protester Arrested in Toppling of Confederate Statue in Durham - The New York Times

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Carl in Tampa