New Orleans announced that it would be tearing down Confederate monuments and finally the process has begun with the one considered the most offensive being toppled first.

NBC reported:

The first memorial to come down was the Liberty Monument, an 1891 obelisk honoring the Crescent City White League.

Workers arrived to begin removing the statue, which commemorates whites who tried to topple a biracial post-Civil War government in New Orleans, around 1:25 a.m. in an attempt to avoid disruption from supporters who want the monuments to stay, some of whom city officials said have made death threats.

The workers inspecting the statue ahead of its removal could be seen wearing flak jackets and helmets. Police officers watched the area from atop the parking garage of a nearby hotel. Meanwhile, a handful of people opposed to the move held a vigil at the statue of Jefferson Davis, who was the president of the Confederacy during the Civil War.

New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu has called the Liberty Monument “the most offensive of the four” to be taken down, adding it was erected to “revere white supremacy.”

“If there was ever a statue that needed to be taken down, it’s that one,” he said in an interview Sunday with The Associated Press.

In 1932 an inscription was even added that read that the statue “recognized white supremacy in the South”, this was later covered with some generic BS! Anyway, the statue clearly symbolises everything it shouldn’t and needed to go!

BUT racist skirmed out of their holes and joined a candlelight vigil at the statue of Jefferson Davis in New Orleans on Monday, a small but showing protest!

Read more about the protests and further monuments to be torn down on NBC here.