UNC Police have arrested a 37 year-old white male they say was spray-painting a message on Silent Sam, a confederate war memorial statue on UNC’s campus on Tuesday.
Loren Stanley Hart, of Concord, has been charged with defacing a statue or monument and resisting arrest.
Officials say that Hart was actively spray-painting the statue when police approached him in the early morning hours on Tuesday. According to police, Hart ran away but was eventually apprehended.
The statue has been spray-painted multiple times and blindfolded over the past year as part of protests against Confederate monuments and buildings named after North Carolinians with ties to the Confederacy. UNC Police say that Hart was painting a message similar to what had been painted on the statue before.
Hart’s bond was set at $500 for the two misdemeanor crimes, and he is scheduled to appear in Orange County Court on January 26.
There have been recent calls from students and members of the community to remove the Silent Sam statue from campus, saying it promotes a racist history. Others say that the statue honors their heritage. Silent Sam was constructed in 1913 to pay tribute to students and alumni who served with the Confederacy during the Civil War.
Good. However the punishment, will I believe be totally insufficent.
Glad they got him. I am so sick of this trash desecrating confederate monuments, flags and anything else confederate. Not a one of them gave a crap about all that until that bucky beaver haley took down the battle flag. All these years these monuments and flags have been there way before these snotty youths of today run the streets like a bunch of animals defacing the monuments of recognized veterans of the united states. They wouldn’t know courage if it slapped them in the face. Whiners and titty babies. I hope that jerk gets what’s coming to him and is forced to clean up the monument. No one was offended with the exception of sharples and his peers until some people were killed in a church. Apparently their families forgave the dog that did it but all the rest which I put in the same category as him, have used their deaths to act like savages. I am just sorry the police didn’t need to shoot him. All this bull crap is pathetic. Get over yourselves and stop whining about being offended over everything.
I worked for 30 years in the People’s Republic of Chapel Hill. The general attitude of the people there is they will tolerate anything, as long as it agrees with their leftest, communists views.
Good and I agree the punishment is totally insufficient.
Good and I agree the punishment is totally insufficient. It’s about time with the thousands of dollars worth of damage that these people have done that someone was held accountable.
I’m glad that they finally caught him. So many young Carolinians gave their lives in support of this state because they felt it was their duty. To deface this monument is a travesty. I hope that he’s given a just punishment.
What’s being “White” have to do with this?