President Donald Trump took to Twitter on Tuesday morning to promise arrests and jail time for protesters who vandalize monuments, ABC News reported. Though he …
President Donald Trump took to Twitter on Tuesday morning to promise arrests and jail time for protesters who vandalize monuments, ABC News reported. Though he didn’t specifically mention Confederate monuments, such memorials have been the target of most of the vandalism Trump referenced.
In the wake of the George Floyd protests, monuments of Confederate fighters in several cities have been targeted by protesters who want them gone, arguing that honoring men who fought for the Confederacy — and by extension, to keep slavery legal — is an ongoing act of racism. In some cases, local governments have agreed, ordered them removed, either to protect them from vandalism or because they believed removing them was simply the right thing to do, or some combination of these and other reasons.
