Protestors gathered in Birmingham went to work to remove a statue erected in a public park with ties to the confederacy.

We gotta protect our city," Johnson told the crowd before saying that protestors couldn't destroy historic civil rights locations like the 16th Street Baptist Church.

"But what I'm not telling you to do is walk to Linn Park.

Video of statue coming down in Linn Park, where @randallwoodfin is now addressing the crowd, asking them to stand down after a pickup truck attempted to pull down a Confederatr monument pic.twitter.com/alF4TOWyOP.

Reports from local media indicated a police presence at the park while protestors attempted to bring down the statue, but did not interfere with their efforts.

However, Birmingham Mayor Randall Woodfin did later encourage protestors to leave, telling them to give him 24 hours to remove the statue from the park.

Allow me to finish the job for you," Woodfin told the crowd, AL.com reported, he also warned the protestors that if they remained in the park and continued to try and bring the statue down that police would come in and begin making arrests.

Like the Linn Park statue, that monument has been the subject of controversy and the university awaiting a ruling on if it can be moved to another location