"Slave Liberation Day" demonstrators pull the statue down, Washington, USA June 20, 19:06
In the United States, demonstrations continued in various places to coincide with the "Slave Liberation Day" commemorating the end of slavery. Of these, in Washington, the capital, demonstrators defeated the statue of a so-called "Confederate" soldier who claimed to continue slavery.
In the United States, on the 19th, in the state of southern Texas, where slavery had continued until the end, we celebrated "Slave Liberation Day", which was named after the slave blacks were told 155 years ago that the system had ended.
This time, while black protesters George Floyd continued to protest against racism caused by the death of a black policeman, rallying and demonstrations were held in various places such as New York.
Among them, in the capital city of Washington, demonstrators overwhelmed and set fire to a statue of General Albert Pike of the so-called "Confederacy" who claimed to continue slavery during the Civil War.
The statue is near the police headquarters in Washington and is the only outdoor Confederate general statue in the capital, so demonstrators knocked down and burned down the statue. And cheered.
In response, President Trump said on Twitter: "Washington police are doing nothing but watching the statues fall down and burned. Those people should be immediately arrested. It is a disgrace to Japan," and criticized the police's response, which he had been waiting for.
On this day, two statues of soldiers of the Confederate were defeated in Raleigh, the state capital of southern North Carolina, and a statue of a person who supported slavery was commemorated, including the defeat of a statue in San Francisco, Western California. A series of moves to remove the monument.