Nearly 100 folks in Durham attempt to “turn themselves in” in symbolic measure to those that toppled Confederate statue earlier in week – PB/TK
Crowds of residents line up to turn themselves in after activists remove Confederate statue – By Melanie Schmitz / Aug 17 2017
Crowds of residents lined up outside the Durham, North Carolina detention facility on Thursday to turn themselves in after activist toppled a Confederate statue in the city earlier in the week. According to The Fader, the group was attempting to get charges against the activists, including Takiyah Thompson, dropped.
“It was a community all together who did that- who was responsible for that toppling of racism,” said Lamont Lilly, activist and Workers World Party (WWP) vice presidential candidate, in a speech to the crowd. “Very often it does take one person to be the spark, to be the initiator like Bree Newsome [who removed the Confederate flag from the South Carolina statehouse grounds in 2015]. But it takes a movement, it takes a mass of people to support that and keep the movement sustainable.”
Although reports stated that there were over 100 people at the detention facility, most were there to simply turn themselves in “symbolically,” in support of three activists directly connected to the toppling. According to The Herald Sun, two of the activists were identified as 37-year-old Elena Everett and 24-year-old Aaron Caldwell. The third person’s name was not immediately available.
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