Police are working to identify vandals who toppled a statue of a Confederate soldier in North Carolina on Monday in order to bring criminal charges against them, according to a statement from the Durham County Sheriff’s Office.
The Durham Police Department stood by and watched as a crowd of protesters brought down the century-old statue on Monday, Fox News reported.
The vandals brought a ladder and tied a rope to the statue to topple it. Several people then stomped on top of the downed statue as officers and deputies looked on.
A man who was marching in a protest poses on the toppled statue of a Confederate soldier in front of the old Durham County Courthouse in Durham, North Carolina, U.S. August 14, 2017.REUTERS/Kate Medley
