Statues toppled Washington, San Francisco and North Carolina in anti-racist protests in America

Following Juneteenth observances, protesters demonstrating against racial injustice tore down and set ablaze at least three statues in America. The monument of Confederate General Albert Pike late on Friday was torn down and set ablaze in the United States capital, Washington, D.C.. Protesters in Raleigh, North Carolina cheered as they toppled two bronze statues off a Confederate monument outside the state Capitol late on Friday (June 19) night before hanging one, the statue of a cavalryman, by its neck fr