Chapel Hill mayor calls on UNC to take down Silent Sam statue
Posted Aug 18, 2017
Chapel Hill Mayor Pam Hemminger called the Confederate monument known as Silent Sam on the UNC campus a danger to public safety Friday and asked the school to take it down. "...the presence of the Silent Sam statue on campus presents a clear and present danger to the students on campus and our community at large," wrote Hemminger in a letter to Chancellor Carol Folt.
(WTVD)
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