Takiyah Thompson, Hailed As 'Hero,' Showered With Support For Toppling Confederate Statue
Huff PostLOADING ERROR LOADING Takiyah Thompson, a 22-year-old student activist who participated in tearing down a Confederate statue during a protest in Durham, North Carolina has been released from jail. pic.twitter.com/GjG3ccK65m — dante strobino August 15, 2017 During the 4 p.m. press conference after which police arrived to apprehend her on Tuesday, Thompson maintained that her actions and the actions were justified, telling ABC News 11, “We are tired of waiting on politicians who could have voted to remove the white supremacist statues years ago, but they failed to act. 2017. pic.twitter.com/P7zgJsQvUW — Shaun King August 15, 2017 Dr. Yaba Blay, a professor at NCCU who taught Thompson in a Black Lives Matter course last spring, told HuffPost that the “brilliant” student has received hate mail and death threats from white supremacists in the wake of her arrest. Activists on Twitter including Shaun King have pointed out that while Thompson was arrested, several white supremacists have yet to face consequences for their violent actions during demonstrations over the last several days.
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