'I understand the frustration and the anger that you have. Allow me to finish the job for you,' Birmingham Mayor Randall Woodfin told the crowd,
Protestors gathered in Birmingham went to work to remove a statue erected in a public park with ties to the confederacy.
"We've got a lot cities around the country. They're tearing down Target. They're tearing down city hall. We can't do that. We gotta protect our city," Johnson told the crowd before saying that protestors couldn't destroy historic civil rights locations like the 16th Street Baptist Church."But what I'm not telling you to do is walk to Linn Park. I'm not telling to walk to Linn Park after this rally.
That monument was erected in 1905 by the United Daughters of the Confederacy, and has been the result of controversy between the city and the Alabama Attorney General's office. The statue of Linn was built in 2013 by a local organization to honor the work of one of Linn's descendants.Raymond Boyd/Getty
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