protests break out after Trump's divisive speech

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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8490715/Thousands-Americans-gather-Fourth-July-protests-US.html

In Baltimore, cellphone footage shared to Facebook, showed the statue of the Italian explorer with two long ropes slung around it as a bustling crowd waits. The group simultaneously yells 'pull' and the gargantuan statue falls onto the brick ground.

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Protesters defy Donald Trump and risk ten years in jail as they throw Columbus statue into Baltimore harbor just hours after he called them 'Nazis and terrorists' in July Fourth address as protests break out across the US

Protesters in Baltimore hauled down a statue of Christopher Columbus and threw it into a harbor on July 4

Demonstrators used ropes to topple the monument while police, who were present, did not intervene

The move came hours after Trump called protesters targeting statues 'Nazis and terrorists' in his Independence Day address

Meanwhile, thousands of Americans have held police brutality and racial inequality protests across the country on the Fourth of July
Black Panther members arrived to Stone Mountain Confederate Memorial in Georgia to protest its reopening because of its ties to the Ku Klux Klan
Protesters in New York City burned an American flag near Trump Tower and crowds swarmed the streets
By REUTERS and LAUREN EDMONDS and KAREN RUIZ FOR DAILYMAIL.COM