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Meanwhile, in Durham, North Carolina, protesters overthrew a monument to a Confederate soldier that’s stood upright since 1924, despite being inscribed with the words, “in memory of the boys who wore the gray,” ABC 11 reports.

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The statue was then bent and stomped upon, gloriously.

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In Nashville Tennessee on Monday, protesters made their way into Governor Bill Haslam’s office and demanded a bust of Confederate lieutenant general and early Klu Klux Klan leader Nathan Bedford Forrest be removed from the state Capitol, the Tennessean reports.

[Update, 10.45 p.m.]: Jezebel is on the ground with its own Facebook-live feed of the NYC protests!

These protests are ongoing and this post will be updated to reflect new developments.