It is not just antifa its leftist mayors and Fire department personnel..
The Superintendent of the New Orleans Fire Department, Tim McConnell, will retire this week, and the New Orleans Fake News collectively ignored and covered up his role in removing four historic monuments for Mitch Landrieu in 2017. Evidence exists and the media partially documented the NOFD’s participation back in 2017, but no reporters have questioned McConnell about it and reported the interview. This piece documents McConnell and the NOFD’s involvement in the Marxist, strong-armed government erasure of the city’s historical landscape.
McConnell’s NOFD career began in 1984 and in 2013 then-mayor-forever-loser Mitch Landrieu appointed McConnell to the Superintendent position. Fast forward to 2017. Donald Trump was in his first few months as President. Mitch Landrieu was on his way out as New Orleans mayor, and he was desperate to leave a legacy.
Landrieu put out a bid request to remove three monuments: Jefferson Davis, G.T. Beauregard, and Robert E. Lee. Only one contractor submitted a bid which came back at $600,000. The Battle of Liberty Place monument was not on the bid.
In the early hours of April 24, masked people mobilized and removed the Battle of Liberty Place monument. A heavy militarized police force established a perimeter complete with snipers in elevated positions. The men working to remove the monument wore helmets, bullet proof vests, and masks, mostly.
https://thehayride.com/2020/10/batiste-monument-removal-pointman-retiring-from-new-orleans-fire-department/