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| Subject: Ignorant Leftist Idiots: Anti-racism protesters mistakenly topple statue of US anti-slavery leader Heg Fri Jun 26, 2020 10:01 am | |
| Anti-racism protesters mistakenly topple statue of US anti-slavery leader Heg, Charleston's Calhoun statue removed after 16 hours
A statue of one of America's fiercest anti-slavery activists has been decapitated and dragged into a lake after being wrongly targeted by anti-racism protesters during a night of violence in the country's Midwest.
Colonel Hans Christian Heg campaigned against slavery, fought in the Union army during the American Civil War, and even led a militia that targeted slave-catchers in Wisconsin. He was shot leading his regiment against Confederate troops at the Battle of Chickamauga in 1863, and died the next day. His statue, outside Wisconsin's State Capitol in Madison, was defaced on Tuesday night with graffiti that read "Fire Matt Kenny". It was referring to the white police officer who shot and killed black 19-year-old Tony Robinson in Wisconsin in 2015.
A group then tore the metal monument down, cut off its head and threw it in nearby Lake Monona. Protesters toppled another long-standing statue in Madison on Tuesday night. Representing Wisconsin's motto, the Forward statue was first installed 125 years ago and replaced with a bronze replica in 1998.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-06-25/protesters-pull-down-wrong-us-statue/12390702
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