It is a bad start of a bad trend, erecting statues in of non-notable living people in public spaces by a mob. Even if you ideologically align with this mob you

It is a bad start of a bad trend, erecting statues in of non-notable living people in public spaces by a mob. Even if you ideologically align with this mob you should realise that this trend better stop here and be reversed or the next time you look those statues will be replaced with other ones by another mob which you do not ideologically align with. This will invariably be followed by mob A "defending their statue" against mob B which wants to replace it with "their statue". If this sounds like the sort of game you'd play in school - defend the crown, in Dutch "Levend Stratego", etc - you're right because that is more or less what it is. Before you know it we'll all be living in Portland, OR. and that is not something you will like, not even if it happens to be your mob which took over the streets. Today, that is, they might be kicked out by another mob tomorrow.