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‘Silent Sam is down’: Crowd topples Confederate statue at UNC

Related Link The ‘Silent Sam’ Confederate Monument at U.N.C. Was Toppled. What Happens Next? By Blain Roberts and Ethan Kyle

A crowd toppled a Confederate statue at the University of North Carolina on Monday night, with cheers and smoke bombs filling the air.

The monument had long been a target of students and others, a symbol of a once-honored past that many wanted to demolish. This spring, a graduate student splashed a mixture of ink and her own blood on the statue. On the night before classes began this year, a crowd gathered to demonstrate at the statue and, using ropes, pulled it down.

Read entire article at The Washington Post