In Graham, N.C., a Riot, Arson, Looting, and the Destruction of a Confederate Monument was Prevented, When the Police Simply Did Their Job! Would-be Rioters Re-Wrote History Yet Again, so that “brown bodies” Have also Suffered “enslavement since 1619”

By Nicholas Stix

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WHAT LED TO HIM PUTTING ONE ON, NEXT. TONIGHT, A CONFEDERATE MONUMENT IN ALAMANCE COUNTY STILL STANDS. DEMONSTRATORS ARE CALLING FOR ITS REMOVAL. WXII 12 WAS IN GRAHAM TODAY FOR THE DEMONSTRATION. >> WE ARE HERE, GRAHAM, NORTH CAROLINA, BECAUSE WHAT HAS HAPPENED TO OUR PEOPLE FOR 400 PEOPLE IS NO LONGER ACCEPTABLE. LEE ANNE: IN FRONT OF A CROWD OF HUNDREDS. REVEREND GREG DRUMWRIGHT CALLING FOR AN END TO WHITE SUPREMACY AND FOR A CONFEDERATE MONUMENT IN GRAHAM'S COURTHOUSE SQUARE TO BE REMOVED. >> THAT MONUMENT REPRESENTS THE ENSLAVEMENT AND INJUSTICE TO BLACK AND BROWN BODIES SINCE 1619. LEE ANNE: ON SATURDAY, A GROUP MARCHED FROM BURLINGTON TO DOWNTOWN GRAHAM WHERE THE STATUE IS LOCATED, DEMANDING IT COME DOWN. >> THE ROUTE THAT WE CHOSE FOR THIS MARCH ON JUSTICE IS THE SAME ROUTE THAT WYATT OUTLAW WAS MARCHED DOWN WHEN HE WAS HUNG AND LYNCHED IN THIS COURTHOUSE SQUARE RIGHT THERE WHERE THAT STATUE STANDS. LEE ANNE: GRAHAM'S MAYOR DECLARED A STATE OF EMERGENCY IN THE CITY FRIDAY AS TENSIONS SURROUNDING THE FATE OF THE STATUE GROWS SOME BELIEVE THE STATUE SHOULD REMAIN. >> THIS MEMORIAL, A MEMORIAL TO OUR ANCESTORS WHO NEVER MADE IT HOME, SOLDIERS ON THE BATTLEFIELDS. >> THIS IS LOVE RIGHT HERE. THANK YOU, ALAMANCE CALLI

N.S.: Note that the would-be riot is filmed form the back, to make it seem as though mostly Whites showed up. However, that is due to the Jim Snow practice of forcing Whites to stand in the back of the crowd, and only speak when told to. Meanwhile, the front is full of blacks.

 
Graham mayor rescinds state of emergency declaration

Updated: 4:10 P.M. EDT Jul 12, 2020
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GRAHAM, N.C. —
The mayor of Graham rescinded the state of emergency declaration Sunday.
Mayor Jerry Peterman issued the state of emergency Friday ahead of a weekend protest near a Confederate statue.
Click the video player above for coverage of Saturday's protest by WXII 12 News reporter Lee Anne Denyer.
[N.S.: I couldn’t get the video to play, but hit the link; you may be more fortunate, or less, as the case may be. At least I was spared listening to the racist terrorists.]
He said there was an “imminent threat” for [sic] widespread damage.

RELATED: Alamance branch of NAACP calls for removal of Graham Confederate monument

The restricted area, where it was unlawful to disobey any warning signs, barriers, or other structures that restrict people from entering, included where a Confederate statue stands in Courthouse Square.

Hundreds of protesters and counter-protesters gathered in the square Saturday during The March For Justice and Community.

The organizers, Justice 4 the Next Generation in partnership with Alamance Alliance for Justice and Alamance Agents for Change, marched 1.5 miles from Burlington to Graham at the beginning of the rally.

RELATED: Federal court temporarily stops City of Graham's protest ban

The group is calling for an end to racial oppression.

One person was arrested by the Burlington Police Department and another was arrested by the Alamance County Sheriff's Office, according to the Alamance County
Sheriff's Department. It is unclear what they have been charged with at this time.

At least two people were treated by paramedics for heat-related issues.

A large law enforcement presence guarded the Confederate monument and barricaded the protesters and counter-protesters from each other.

[N.S.: That’s Law Enforcement 101. In Charlottesville at the August 11, 2017, Unite the Right rally, chaos reigned and Heather Heyer died, because black supremacist chief of police, Al Thomas, and Nation of Islam deputy mayor, Wes Bellamy, wanted it that way.]