Bradenton FL Confederate monument down

[struggle4progress]

POSTED: AUG 24 2017 02:22PM EDT
UPDATED: AUG 24 2017 02:23PM EDT

... the Confederate war veteran memorial was taken off the grounds of the county courthouse in Bradenton on Thursday morning ...

During the process of removing the monument, Azzara said, crews discovered the 22-foot, 8.5-ton granite obelisk was “an even greater public safety risk than suspected.”

As the crane began to lift the monument, “it became evident that the spire was not completely attached to the base of the monument,” he explained.

Surveillance video shared by the county shows the spire toppling to the ground, splitting into two pieces ...

http://www.fox13news.com/news/local-news/275829500-story

[ornotna]

1. I'm surprised they thought it was one piece

No way they should have used only one choke strap at the bottom of the obelisk. Oh well, nobody got hurt. Don't care about the monument.

[gratuitous]

2. Another Daughters of the Confederacy special

Put up in 1924 by the busy girls of the Daughters of the Confederacy, it appears that the Bradenton obelisk was another rush-job monument on public land designed to make sure certain citizens in the area stayed mindful of their proper place. And, like the traitorous cabal it commemorated, it fell apart when the going got tough.

[mitch96]

3. "Daughters of the Confederacy"

I'm curious are there any monuments to the Tories that fought for the British?? They lost too...
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