The statue, known as “Silent Sam” for his lack of ammunition, has been a source of controversy on campus for years, and the university has long faced calls for it to be removed. Last … Several scuffles broke out between the groups on Saturday, and dozens of protesters rushed police making arrests, pinning them at one time against the outside of Graham Hall, where those arrested were being held. It wasn’t the first time Silent Sam was damaged or vandalized. A state panel will meet Wednesday to discuss the removal of three monuments that are currently located at the State Capitol, according to the Associated Press. “All of these people coming together for this one sole purpose and actually getting it done was the best part.”, Bernie Sanders Mittens Memes Take Over Social Media, How President Biden Handles a Divided America Will Define His Legacy. By signing up you are agreeing to our, The Civil War Wasn't Just About the Union and the Confederacy. Police struggle with a protester during unrest at a demonstration against a statue of a Confederate soldier nicknamed Silent Sam on the campus of the University of North Carolina in … Emery also is facing a misdemeanor charge of impeding traffic by sitting, standing or lying in the roadway in Wake County. In that case, a District Court judge found Jimenez not guilty of injury to real property, defacing a public building or monument, and conspiracy to deface a public building or monument. The deadly event, which was centered on the University of Virginia’s statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee, prompted protests at UNC as well as the removal of a statue of the Confederate general at Duke University, just a few miles away from Chapel Hill. Gov. His next court date will be Sept. 20. UNC Chancellor Carol Folt said Saturday she will not be rushed into making a decision about the statue's future. Protests outside the University of Virginia in Charlottesville in 2017 over Confederate monuments ... ASSOCIATED PRESS The remnants of a Confederate statue known as "Silent Sam" is lifted before being transported to the bed of a truck early Tuesday on the campus of the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, N.C. Video taken at UNC around 1 a.m. Tuesday showed people singing and … Protesters tear down Confederate monument 00:45 Silent Sam was not the first Confederate monument to come down in North Carolina. But if that messaging weren’t transparent enough, Carr offered a personal anecdote as well. While the law requires that statues and monuments moved temporarily be reinstalled within 90 days, it also allows for statues and monuments that are in peril to be removed. She was released on a $1,000 secured bond. The Black Student Movement and the the Afro-American Society of Chapel Hill High School hold a gathering and protest at Silent Sam in memory of James Cates, a young black man murdered in the Pit by members of a white motorcycle gang on November 20, 1970, and William Murphy, a black man shot and killed by a highway patrolman in Ayden, N.C. on August 6, 1971. He has long been the subject of a controversy that draws upon antagonisms that run deeply and are in many ways as complex as the causes of the Civil War itself. Joustra has a previous conviction for injury real property in 2012. After the statue was toppled, university officials pointed to it as “a source of frustration for many people not only on our campus but throughout the community.”, “However,” wrote Carol Folt, the school’s chancellor, in a statement Tuesday morning, “last night’s actions were unlawful and dangerous, and we are very fortunate that no one was injured.”. The remaining four people, who were charged in connection with the Aug. 20 protest and vandalism, already have court dates scheduled this fall. "They have failed to … One of those charged, Raul Arce Jimenez, was also among those charged with toppling a Confederate statue in Durham a year ago. “Without that blood on the statue, it’s incomplete, in my opinion. Please attempt to sign up again. Pat McCrory, a Republican, that forbids universities and public entities from removing commemorative statues without approval from the North Carolina legislature. Conversations . The statue, which earned the nickname “Silent Sam” in the 1950s and was commissioned by the United Daughters of the Confederacy, served as an emblem of “the welfare of the Anglo Saxon race,” Carr said. He was released on a written promise to appear and is scheduled to return to court on Aug. 30. - John Quick, 35, of Carrboro, who was charged Saturday with misdemeanor simple assault. Cooper shared similar sentiments in a statement Monday night on Twitter. National About 100 yards from the statue, he said during his speech at his alma mater, he had, in the weeks immediately after the end of the Civil War, personally “horse-whipped” a black woman “until her skirts hung in shreds, because upon the streets of this quiet village she had publicly insulted and maligned a Southern lady, and then rushed for protection to these University buildings where was stationed a garrison of 100 Federal soldiers.”, “I performed the pleasing duty,” he continued, “in the immediate presence of the entire garrison, and for thirty nights afterwards slept with a double-barrel shot gun under my head.”. Silent Sam has been a target for protests since the 1960s after UNC trustee Julian Carr gave a speech which talked about 'the purity of the Anglo-Saxon race' as it was unveiled in 1913. Her hearing in that case is scheduled for Sept. 27. More than 100 years later, on the night before the first day of class for the 2018-19 school year, around 250 protestors toppled Silent Sam to the ground. He was released on a written promise to appear. All Rights Reserved. When industrialist and white supremacist Julian Carr spoke at the 1913 unveiling of the Confederate statue now known as Silent Sam at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC), he made its intended symbolism abundantly clear. And for nearly as long, the UNC system's board of governors had been as silent as the statue about what they planned to do with it. “Protesters on Monday night toppled Silent Sam, the prominent Confederate monument whose presence has divided the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s campus for decades,” The Chronicle for Higher Education reported. - Lillian Laura Price, 20, of Chapel Hill, who was charged Aug. 20 with misdemeanor injury to personal property. It was pulled down by protesters in August after more than 100 years on campus. In fact, protests against the statue began in the 1960s during the Civil Rights movement, according to the school’s library. Along with Silent Sam, Gov. On September 1, 2011, a group calling itself the Real Silent Sam Movement held a protest "to attract attention to the statue's history". He was released on a written promise to appear and is scheduled to return to court Sept. 6. - Kristin Emery, 26, of Durham, who was charged Saturday with misdemeanor resisting a public officer. By Tammy Grubb, The Herald-Sun (Durham, N.C.), © Travis Long/Raleigh News & Observer/TNS. Calls to remove Silent Sam escalated in recent years amid a larger nationwide movement seeking to move, destroy or contextualize statues and symbols that celebrated the Confederacy and the lost-cause narrative of the Civil War. Protests over the statue gained more steam in the aftermath of 2017’s white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Va. The protest was billed as being “in solidarity with Maya Little who faces criminal trial for covering Silent Sam in paint and her own blood”. A plan to move "Silent Sam" presented by the school on Monday sparked protests hours after campus trustees overwhelming approved the proposal.