Other protests took place during the weekend in Oxford, Biloxi, Jackson and other parts of Mississippi.
Mississippi Republican Gov. Tate Reeves said Monday that he respects people’s First Amendment right to protest.
In Oxford Monday, a judge set bond for a man charged with defacing a Confederate monument at the University of Mississippi during nationwide protests against police brutality.
Installed in 1906 during a period when Confederate descendants and sympathizers were erecting monuments to the “lost cause’’ of the South, the statue was a rallying point in 1962 for people who rioted to oppose the university’s court-ordered integration.
University of Mississippi Chancellor Glenn Boyce issued a statement after Borenstein’s arrest condemning racism and saying he is committed to moving the statue, The Daily Mississippian reported.
