On the day, which is celebrated in the USA on the end of the slave trade, and the protesters cheered when the statue of Albert Pike, with 3,40 meters in height, and is surrounded by a current, balanced on her high pedestal from the granite, before he fell back, landing on the ground.
The statue which was then set on fire, and the protestors stayed around while it was burning, and singing the words of the order, such as “no justice, no peace” and “no racist police”.
The accounts of eye-witnesses and videos posted on social networks showed that the police was on the scene, but did not do any action.
The us President, Donald Trump has condemned the social networking “Twitter,” and the cutting down of the statue, in a message addressed to the ‘mayor’ (the mayor’s) of Washington d.c., Muriel Bowser.
“The police are not doing their job when they see that as long as a statue is felled and burned,” wrote Trump.
After the fall of the statue, which is the majority of the protesters have returned peacefully, at Park Station, close to the White House.
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