ADVERTISEMENTDemonstrators on Monday night toppled a Confederate monument outside of a court house in Durham, North Carolina. During a public protest, a woman climbed the statue and tied a rope around it at around 7:00pm, according to Derrick Lewis, a reporter with local CBS affiliate in Durham. #Durham pic.twitter.com/11GLhueqU1 — Derrick Lewis (@DerrickQLewis) August 15, 2017There are more than 700 Confederate monuments installed in public areas across 31 states, the USA Today notes. A confederate monument was at the center of weekend protests that turned deadly in Charlottesville, Virginia. White supremacists descended on Charlottesville over the weekend to protest the city’s removal of a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee.

Source: Huffington Post August 15, 2017 00:30 UTC