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From: leftardians@cnn.com

At least seven people have been arrested as opposing groups
clashed at the University of North Carolina Saturday over a
century-old Confederate statue that was torn down earlier this
week.

Three arrests were for assault, the fourth for destruction of
property and the fifth for resisting an officer, Fox 8 North
Carolina reported. The sixth arrest was for assault, destruction
of property and inciting a riot. There is no current information
on the seventh arrest.

One person was recorded by the station stomping on a Confederate
flag and then being led away by police.

Protesters gathered at the spot where the statue was torn down
and held signs and chanted "racists go home," according to the
station. Several other people in support of the statue were seen
holding Confederate flags.

Anti-Silent Sam protesters also chanted “Black lives, they
matter here!” and “Cops and Klan go hand in hand!,” the Durham
Herald Sun reported.

Chelsea Manning, the former Army intelligence analyst convicted
of leaking classified documents, at the protest, the Durham Indy
Week reported.

“Silent Sam shouldn’t go back up,” Manning was quoted as saying.

Charges were filed Friday against three people cops say played
some part in tearing down the statue.

Hundreds of student protesters gathered at the UNC campus in
Chapel Hill Monday night to bring down the statue known as
“Silent Sam.”

Using ropes and violent force, the protesters toppled the
statute which had stood that ground since 1913.

UNC leaders and many North Carolina leaders, including Gov. Roy
Cooper, criticized the protesters’ actions Monday.

“That Confederate monument has been a flashpoint and a divisive
symbol for decades, and especially since Charlottesville, has
been the focus of increasing frustration, anxiety and pain for
people,” Chancellor Carol Folt said Thursday, according to the
paper.

But Folt added: “No matter what you felt about the monument,
what happened on Monday night was destruction of state property,
and that is not lawful, and someone could have been badly
injured. Using the full breadth of state and university
processes, we will do our best to identify, and will hold those
responsible accountable.”

The statue was under constant and costly police surveillance
after being vandalized in recent months. Many students, faculty
and alumni argued that "Silent Sam" symbolized racism and asked
officials to take it down.

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/08/25/seven-arrests-as-protesters- clash-at-unc-over-toppled-silent-sam-statue.html

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