Armed Black Patriot Defends Confederate Monument During New Orleans Protest

In New Orleans, there is a monument honoring Jefferson Davis, the President of the Confederate States of America during the Civil War. So, of course, leftists have descended upon the monument in order to protest it’s “racist” origins. Several monument supporters showed up to counter-protest, as well.

One of them was black — and armed.

The dueling protests at the Jefferson Davis monument in New Orleans’ Mid-City had been heated all night. Suddenly, a monument opponent stood inches away from a monument supporter — armed with a long gun and a chest full of magazines — at the base of the statue honoring the Confederacy’s first and only president.

The monument supporter stood stone-faced as the opponent taunted him. Neither man was budging. This was the scene on Monday night during a packed, tense protest and counter-protest over the future of Confederate monuments in New Orleans.

A small group of monument supporters, several of them carrying guns, faced off against hundreds of monument opponents, many of them carrying black-and-red flags. For more than an hour, the two sides shouted and stared at each other.

The exchanges occasionally got more than testy. Police detained at least four people on the scene, although it was not clear whether anyone was booked. One of the detainees, a legal observer for the National Lawyers Guild, said he was released with a summons for crossing a police cordon.

The tensions eased only when New Orleans police officers created a pathway out of the hostile crowd for the monument supporters. They filed one by one to the safety of a nearby pickup truck.

“We fought you without fear for 100 years, we’ll fight you for 100 more. Go on home Johnny Rebel, go on home!” the monument opponents sang as the supporters walked.

The more than two dozen police on hand then ordered the entire crowd across the neutral ground and away from the statue. As the crowd dispersed, its members briefly halted the passage of a streetcar traveling down Canal Street.

“It turned into something we were not expecting,” said Eris Walsh, a New Orleans resident and monument opponent who was also at the statue on Sunday. “It got more heated than I personally would have liked.”

It should come as no surprise that the protests got “more heated” than expected. The media-driven outrage machine wants the left to get angry about everything and anything. Civil debate is out. Now, the left have devolved into kicking and screaming.

Source: The Advocate