{"id":100801,"date":"2020-06-12T08:00:25","date_gmt":"2020-06-12T12:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=100801"},"modified":"2020-06-11T13:22:19","modified_gmt":"2020-06-11T17:22:19","slug":"confederate-statue-breaks-protesters-head","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=100801","title":{"rendered":"Falling Confederate Statue Hits Protester’s Head"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Protesters take statue down. One of the protesters gets injured.\u00a0 (The Donald Win)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Protesters toppled a Confederate statue in Portsmouth, VA. When the protesters succeeded, the statue came down. It injured one of the protesters in the head during its fall. The president of Black Lives Matter 757 provided a graphic detail.<\/p>\n

From Newsweek:<\/span><\/p>\n

The president of Black Lives Matter 757, Aubrey JaPharii Jones, who witnessed the collapse, told WAVY-TV: “There was a gentleman directly in front of the statue. When the statue finally did give way…it fully hit him in the head. His skull was actually showing and he was convulsing on the ground. He lost a great amount of blood.”<\/p>\n

The man was hospitalized and sustained serious injuries, Sergeant Misty Holley of the Portsmouth Police Department confirmed.<\/p>\n

Portsmouth Police Department Chief Angela Greene told reporters that no order from her was given for officers to ignore the destruction of property. She noted an elected official directed them to let the vandalism occur and that no arrests were to be made.<\/p>\n

The soldier statue was part of a Confederate monument featuring three other statues that were also pulled down on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

Protesters began pulling down the monument around 8:20 p.m. local time using a rope which later snapped, The Virginian-Pilot reported. Flames burned briefly at the base of one of the statues after a flag tied to the monument was reported to have been set on fire.<\/p>\n

Portsmouth police warned residents to avoid the area of the monument in a post on its official Twitter account just after 10 p.m. local time saying: “The Portsmouth Police Department is asking all citizens to avoid the area of Court Street at High Street as they disperse demonstrators and investigate an incident that resulted in a citizen getting injured.”<\/p>\n

The crowd was said to have thrown bricks at the monument before starting to dismantle it piece by piece, while a marching band played and other protesters danced.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Newsweek has the full story here<\/a>. Thanks to everyone who mentioned this incident.<\/p>\n

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A passerby said \u201cthe incompetent leadership of this city finally met its match,\u201d @WAVY_News<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/Lo8bnvhE1Z<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Brett Hall (@BrettHNews) June 11, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n