I will say this, I don’t people should just take it upon themselves to tear down a statue, do it the legal way. Do it via the appropriate government entity. And yes, it might not be inaccurate to say that those that illegally tear down statues are thugs.
Some things that are illegal aren’t really wrong at all.
So it is ok for me to go around and tear down any statue I think it wrong to have? No. it is not. Why? Because I don’t own the statue. You can argue that statue that belongs to the country, is owned by all of us, it is not owned by me alone. Therefore I don’t get to decide its fate alone.
If you want to remove the Civil War statues the right way, go through the appropriate legal entities.