NC Gov: Allow Removal of Confederate Statues Lest Protesters get Hurt Pulling Them Down

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On Tuesday night North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper called on the state legislature to grant counties, municipalities, and the state the ability to remove Confederate statues.

The Democratic Governor says he’s worried that if they don’t remove them, protesters might get hurt pulling them down.

Breitbart reports Cooper wants to reverse a North Carolina law adopted in 2015 that protects historical statues from being removed.

In a Facebook post, he criticized Confederate monuments as being symbols of slavery without mentioning that Southern slave-owners were Democrats and that the Confederacy was a Democrat nation.

Cooper said he was more concerned about “protesters being injured or worse as they try to topple any one of the hundreds of monuments” in the state.

Corrie O'Connor