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Durham protester charged in Confederate statue vandalism
wral.com ^ | 8/15/17 | Drueger, Leslie, Owens

Posted on 08/16/2017 3:19:24 AM PDT by beejaa

DURHAM, N.C. — A North Carolina Central University student was arrested Tuesday in connection with a Monday night protest in which a Confederate statue in front of Durham County's former courthouse was pulled down.

Takiyah Fatima Thompson, 22, was charged with participation in a riot ...

Thompson was given $10,000 unsecured bond and is scheduled to appear in court Wednesday morning.

Durham County Sheriff Mike Andrews said Tuesday that his deputies were working to identify others involved in the incident and plan to pursue felony charges against them.

Some protest organizers defended their actions Tuesday, calling the monument a symbol of oppression and racism.

"I'm tired of white supremacy keeping its foot on my neck and the necks of people who look like me," Thompson said at a separate news conference. "That statue glorifies the conditions that oppressed people live in, and it had to go."

Thompson and several other protesters said they are part of the Durham chapter of the Workers World Party. According to their website, they are a "revolutionary socialist organization, engaging in struggles for the working class and the oppressed".

"We know that after Charlottesville and all of the racist incidents beforehand, all of the police killings, we are at war. This is war," said Loan Tran with the Workers World Party.

Sheriff: Public safety comes first Andrews called the protesters' actions "a blatant violation of the law," but he said no one was arrested during the demonstration because officials worried about injuries in the resulting chaos.

"Don't mistake restraint for inaction," he said. "Had I ordered my deputies to engage a hostile crowd, there would have been serious injuries. Statues can be replaced; lives cannot…"

(Excerpt) Read more at wral.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: North Carolina
KEYWORDS: alawda; answer; art; confederate; dixie; iac; loantran; nkorea; norks; northkorea; statue; takiyahthompson; vandalism; wwp
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Note the part where several protesters said that they are part of the Durham chapter of the Workers World Party. Also, law enforcement officials did nothing when the statue was being pulled down in order to avoid injuries.
1 posted on 08/16/2017 3:19:24 AM PDT by beejaa
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To: beejaa

Muslim convert no doubt.


2 posted on 08/16/2017 3:20:32 AM PDT by CincyRichieRich (We must never shut up. Covfefe: A great dish served piping hot!)
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To: beejaa

The Left WILL NOT like this!


3 posted on 08/16/2017 3:25:22 AM PDT by BobL (In Honor of the NeverTrumpers, I declare myself as FR's first 'Imitation NeverTrumper')
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To: beejaa

There’s a black professor from a university on FOXNEWS CRYING with a big rag about what the president said ...sniffing and weeping...good grief !!!

there’s also a black woman concerned for her “2 boys”


4 posted on 08/16/2017 3:31:47 AM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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To: beejaa
She has nothing to worry about.....

Nexus Services will pay bail for counter protesters

5 posted on 08/16/2017 3:32:48 AM PDT by Hot Tabasco
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To: beejaa

WWP and North Korea

The “Peace” Movement’s Korean Connection
By: Michael Tremoglie
FrontPageMagazine.com | Thursday, January 30, 2003

http://archive.frontpagemag.com/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=20054


6 posted on 08/16/2017 3:33:20 AM PDT by piasa
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Loan Tran? Black or another Asian trying to make believe they are oppressed. She says this is a war. Well then she’s going to find out how bad a War can be.


7 posted on 08/16/2017 3:33:54 AM PDT by dp0622 (The Left should know that if Trump is kicked out of office, it is WAR!)
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To: beejaa
revolutionary socialist organization, engaging in struggles for the working class and the oppressed

I'm surprised that tub o' lard could string that many multi-syllable words together in a sentence.

8 posted on 08/16/2017 3:34:08 AM PDT by grobdriver (Where is Wilson Blair when you need him?)
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To: beejaa

I wonder what will happen when they run out of statues.


9 posted on 08/16/2017 3:34:50 AM PDT by cdcdawg
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To: beejaa

I wonder if Takiyah means anything other than taqiyah. or it just sounded nice.


10 posted on 08/16/2017 3:35:44 AM PDT by heartwood (If you're looking for a </sarc tag>, you just saw it.)
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To: beejaa

She's well fed.

11 posted on 08/16/2017 3:36:28 AM PDT by Islander7 (There is no septic system so vile, so filthy, the left won't drink from to further their agenda)
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To: beejaa

Why is this not a hate crime?


12 posted on 08/16/2017 3:38:40 AM PDT by 2banana (My common ground with terrorists - they want to die for islam and we want to kill them)
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We’ll be feeding and caring for this cow until..............!


13 posted on 08/16/2017 3:39:25 AM PDT by Dr. Ursus
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To: beejaa

“Foot on my neck...” .? Please. Drama much? Collecting benefits I wonder?


14 posted on 08/16/2017 3:39:59 AM PDT by Envisioning (Carry safe, always carry, everyday, everywhere.)
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To: heartwood

Its a misspelling of a drug they give OB/GYN patients in the hospital for treating infection of female anal hemorrhoids caused by diarrhea.


15 posted on 08/16/2017 3:40:20 AM PDT by anton
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To: Islander7

That neck needs TWO feet.


16 posted on 08/16/2017 3:41:06 AM PDT by exit82 (The opposition has already been Trumped!)
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To: beejaa
"I'm tired of white supremacy keeping its foot on my neck and the necks of people who look like me," Thompson said at a separate news conference. "That statue glorifies the conditions that oppressed people live in, and it had to go."

Just like that mural at Yale(?), too many black people when confronted with something of they do not approve resort to destroying it and vandalism.

Some protest organizers defended their actions Tuesday

"We get to decide whose property we can destroy."

17 posted on 08/16/2017 3:41:47 AM PDT by Trump20162020
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To: CincyRichieRich

The WWP is affiliated with Al-Awda, “the Palestinian Right to Return Coalition” via its connection to the International Action Center (IAC)


18 posted on 08/16/2017 3:43:50 AM PDT by piasa
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To: beejaa
"I'm tired of white supremacy keeping its foot on my neck and the necks of people who look like me," Thompson said at a separate news conference. "That statue glorifies the conditions that oppressed people live in, and it had to go."

So, Takiyah, ready to exchange it for Islam which is even more oppressive?

19 posted on 08/16/2017 3:48:46 AM PDT by exit82 (The opposition has already been Trumped!)
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To: dp0622

I just checked wikipedia and the median household income of Vietnamese immigrants is higher than the US average. We’re talking about an immigrant group many of whom arrived here very poor and with zero language skills just a few decades ago.

I’ll bet this Tran character would be miffed if you pointed this apparent lack of oppression. She’s probably rebelling against patriotic, strongly anti-communist parents who appreciate America their adopted country.


20 posted on 08/16/2017 3:56:51 AM PDT by Yardstick
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