Protesters were toppling two confederate statues in Portsmouth, Virginia when one of the statues fell and hit a man in the head as it was coming down, leaving him critically injured. Below is video of the toppling of the statues. It doesn’t show the man getting hit:
NEW: At least one person is critically injured in Portsmouth, Virginia, when a confederate statue falls on a protester during its removal: pic.twitter.com/ZNKquvWPkp
— Alex Salvi (@alexsalvinews) June 11, 2020
Below is a couple of photos of the statue on the ground, and a video of people cleaning up:
#BREAKING Man seriously hurt after he is hit by the falling confederate soldier statue that was pulled down by protesters. What had a party atmosphere 15 minutes ago now is filled with crime tape. @WAVY_News pic.twitter.com/V8fnPy7Vky
— Brett Hall (@BrettHNews) June 11, 2020
Most people have left the area at the encouragement of @BLM757 and @NAACPPortsmouth organizers. Those left are helping to clean up trash @WAVY_News pic.twitter.com/QoSX4yVbcA
— Brett Hall (@BrettHNews) June 11, 2020
In this video the president of the local BLM group describes what happened, saying that after the statue hit the man in the head, you could see his skull exposed and he was convulsing on the ground:
President of @BLM757 describes what he saw of the incident. He says afterwords you could see part of the mans skull. He is Asking everyone to pray for the man who believes was in his 30s @WAVY_News pic.twitter.com/Lh5vQSVtOX
— Brett Hall (@BrettHNews) June 11, 2020
According to Amy Kaufeldt with Fox 35, the man lost consciousness and both police and rescue were called.
This is why you don’t just go have a party and tear down a statue. These idiots don’t know what they’re doing and a man may die because of it.