A crowd of protesters smashed, cut up, doused in paint, burned and sprayed graffiti over a Confederate monument outside a courthouse in Portsmouth, Va., on Wednesday …
A crowd of protesters smashed, cut up, doused in paint, burned and sprayed graffiti over a Confederate monument outside a courthouse in Portsmouth, Va., on Wednesday night — and part of it tumbled down, reportedly seriously injuring one of the demonstrators.
Confederate statues and other monuments linked to controversial figures have drawn the ire of demonstrators protesting the death of George Floyd, as the protesters consider them to be symbols of racism and white supremacy.
“It’s a symbol that represents an ideology of white supremacy,“ Mark Whitaker, a former local lawmaker, told The Virginian-Pilot.
