North Carolina At Chapel Hill

Top North Carolina officials are responding after the Confederate statue Silent Sam was topped by protesters in Chapel Hill Monday night.

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(21 Aug 2018) The controversial “Silent Sam” statue on the campus of the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill has been toppled by protesters. Students, faculty and alumni have called the statue a racist image and asked officials to remove it. (Aug. 21)

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On Monday evening, a large group of protesters destroyed a 105-year-old Confederate statue named “Silent Sam” standing on the campus of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

On the evening of August 20, a group of students gathered to demand that university officials remove the statue that has stood since 1913 on McCorkle Place in the university’s upper quad. But after several hours of chanting and speaking about the destruction of the statue, the protesters took the situation into their own hands and tore the monument down, ABC 11 reported.

Protesters cheered as they toppled a controversial Confederate monument on the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill campus on Monday evening, August 20.

Video from the UNC campus shows protesters hauling down the monument known as “Silent Sam” using a rope. WRAL reported one person was arrested at the demonstration.

The Facebook event also states the rally was in solidarity with Maya Little, a doctoral student, who is facing a criminal trial for covering the Silent Sam statue in paint and her own blood.

(21 Aug 2018) Protesters on the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill campus knocked down a Confederate monument known as ‘Silent Sam’ on Monday. The statue was erected in 1913. Protesters called it a symbol of racist heritage. (Aug. 21)

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Protesters and police officers class around the Confederate statue known as Silent Sam on the University of North Carolina campus in Chapel Hill, NC Monday night, August, 20, 2018.

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