On Sunday, after protesters tried to topple a 115-year-old Confederate monument in Birmingham, Alabama, the mayor of Birmingham pled with the protesters to leave before they got arrested, promising to remove the monument.
The 52-foot tall Confederate Soldiers & Sailors Monument in Linn Park, where there is also a statue of Confederate sailor Charles Linn, was erected in 1905. Birmingham Mayor Randall Woodfin showed up on the scene and said he would work to have the monument removed by Tuesday. He said, “Ladies and gentlemen: everybody listen to me. If you continue to (unintelligible) the statue, we’ll have to bring the police in. I’m not telling you to disperse; I’m just telling you to leave the statue alone. I gave you my word; Tuesday by noon, okay?”
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