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Court Square to protect the monument since a group of demonstrators in Durham pulled down a monument to Confederate soldiers. “I’ve been here all week keeping an eye on the statue,” said Jo Ann Volk of Burlington. “A lot of us have.” On the northeast corner, LaQuan Knox, 26, said that was the problem. He didn’t say how he had heard about the monument’s self-appointed protectors, but he said he was encouraging people to come out as a counter. “That group was here when I got here, with battle flags,” Knox said. Others also said it was the first time the people watching over the monument had been so visible, though no flags were visible by 9:30 p.m. Sheriff’s Capt. Jeff Snyder said it was hard to tell why any particular person was there that night. “I don’t know if they’re protesting or just showing up,” Snyder said, gesturing at a group of about 10 people with a motorcycle and a scooter occupying a parking space on the west side of the courthouse. Knox said he wanted the monument gone, but insisted he didn’t intend to damage it. For one thing, he said, Gov. Roy Cooper has said such monuments should be taken off public property all over the state, and secondly because there are many more of them all over the state. “I tear one down, what have I done?” Knox asked. “Nothing.” SHERIFF’S DEPUTIES, WITH support from Graham police, told everyone to stay off county property, including the monument and sidewalk around the old courthouse. Graham police kept a light hand, but asked people to stay out of the street. Knox was on Facebook Live for nearly an hour asking people from Alamance County to join him at the monument, saying they should be ashamed to let people from other places demonstrate while they stayed home. He said he grew up in Alamance County and attended Cummings High School, though he does not live here now. People on both sides of the street had their phones out calling people and shooting video. “This crowd gets larger, then that crowd gets larger, and they’re all live-streaming each other,” Chuck Talley, owner of several buildings and businesses on Court Square and North Main Street, said around 10 p.m. “I don’t think anything will happen tonight.” There were complaints a... (Burlington Times News)