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Johnny Reb's Revenge
Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
26 Sep 2017
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Takiyah Thompson and other defendants await trial on felony charges, in Durham, North Carolina, for tearing down the statue of a Confederate soldier. The 22 year-old student and Workers World party activist had this to say about the county sheriff that arrested the protesters: “Policing is a white supremacist institution.”

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