Sir, I know that city and I know exactly what happened. Those far right nuts came to that city with blood in their eyes. They were there to intimidate and try to stop the removal of the statue, that was placed by a racist rich land owner decades after the war. He wanted to intimidate blacks.
At first I was even against taking the statue down, but when I started doing the research, I realized the reason was not to honor Robert E. Lee, but to frighten and keep blacks in their place. fox has never been reliable on accurate research and truth. Do some reading....