MID-SOUTH — Oxford Police Department told us they received a threat against the confederate statue on the square on Sunday night.
They then called the Lafayette County Sheriff's Office because the county owns the property.
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The threat to the statue came into Oxford Police Department came on social media.
The sheriff's office has since placed barricades around the statue erected in 1907 and dedicated to Lafayette County Confederate soldiers who died in the civil war.
Ole Miss student Morgan Taylor told us she doesn't condone defacing public property, but the statue needs to go.
“I think the bigger issue is that there is a Confederate monument in the middle of our town and one over on-campus that obviously somebody did something to, and I wouldn’t be surprised if something happened to the one in the middle of the square,” Taylor said. “Put it in the cemetery with the one that is on campus.”
Pat O'Neal of Colorado is in town visiting family.
He said to protect the statue and keep it where it is.
“I don't think they need to mess with history. If we don’t know history then we are doomed to repeat ourselves.”
Ole Miss student Ariel Riley told us it was time for the barricades and the statue to go.
“It doesn’t represent the citizens of this town, and they don’t represent what’s going on in America,” Riley said. “America is a diverse and beautiful place, and the monument to the confederacy deserves to be left in the past.”
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