Hundreds of armed Black Panthers marched in the country’s biggest Confederate monument and demanded its removal as thousands of people attended protests and protesters set American flags alight near Trump Tower.
Thousands of people ditched the normal celebrations for protests and rallies as they descended on Washington DC in the soaring heat.
American flag burnings were also seen in New York City and Washington.
Black Panthers gathered at the country’s biggest Confederate monument and demanded its removal.
In New York City, a big American flag was set on fire while demonstrators chanted ‘slavery, genocide and war…America was never great.’
A speaker at the event also said ‘police murder, terror and mass incarceration of Black and Brown people’ are some of the reasons why the US ‘is irredeemable.’
Other protesters lit smaller flags outside Trump Tower near NYC’s Columbus Circle.
In Georgia, hundreds of members of the Black Panther Party called to remove the Stone Mountain Confederate Memorial.
Gerald Griggs, a vice president of the Atlanta chapter of the NAACP civil rights group, said: “Here we are in Atlanta, the birthplace of the Civil Rights Movement and still we have the largest Confederate monument in the world. It’s time for our state to get on the right side of the history.”
In Virginia, BLM activists gathered at an Open Carry rally, most of them carrying semi-automatic weapons, rifles, and firearms to protest against the violation of constitutional rights and gun control.
Organized by Virginia Knights, an activist group, the rally also served as a memorial for Duncan Lemp, the man who was shot in his home during a police raid.
The Facebook event stated: “This rally on July Fourth is to show that gun owners will not be trampled on! We are citizens who demand our 2nd Amendment rights be protected by the very people who swore an oath to protect us. Any and all gun laws are an infringement and are unconstitutional.
“Duncan Socrates Lemp was our brother unjustly murdered in his sleep [under] the same laws in Maryland that Governor Northam has signed into law in VA.”
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