Two weeks after a demonstration was held inside the Tennessee State Capitol calling for the removal of the bust of Nathan Bedford Forrest, a group returned to the legislative building Monday night, though this time turning their attention outside.

Protesters ascended stairs in front of the Capitol Monday night, placing a sheet over a statue of Confederate soldier Sam Davis and chaining to the monument a homemade bust.

The gold bust, carried throughout a march downtown by members of Showing Up for Racial Justice Nashville, read “Terence Crutcher,” the name of an unarmed black man fatally shot by a police officer in Tulsa, Oklahoma last year. Below the bust, demonstrators affixed a sign reading “Honor Black Lives.”

Earlier, as protesters held up traffic outside of bars on Lower Broadway — Metro Nashville police meanwhile blocking the street and watching the march unfold — they chanted “Hey hey, ho ho, Betty Shelby has got to go,” a reference to the Tulsa officer charged and then found not guilty of first-degree manslaughter in the September 2016 killing of Crutcher.

The group believed that Shelby would be speaking at the Fraternal Order of Police’s national conference, a biennial event being held this week at Gaylord Opryland Resort and Convention Center.

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Dixon Irene, part of the Showing Up for Racial Justice Nashville steering committee, credited FOP with assisting Shelby in beating the charge.

“We are here to say Nashville doesn’t welcome the FOP in our city,” Irene said.

Protesters criticize law enforcement

While addressing the group of roughly 100 protesters prior to the march, Irene criticized both the FOP specifically and the law enforcement profession in general.

She alleged that policing was “an institution that started as a response to black slaves escaping” and that police have historically “worked alongside the KKK and other hate groups” to “create a policy of fear and a society of hate.”

Around 15 Metro officers held traffic as the group marched both in the street and on sidewalks around downtown, chanting “No justice, no peace, no racist police” and “The FOP protects white supremacy,” among other phrases.

Central Precinct Commander Gordon Howey still described the march as a “peaceful demonstration.”

“They got out and they were able to say what they wanted to say,” Howey said. “No one was hurt. We didn’t have any issues. There was no destruction of property, no violence.

“Part of our job is to uphold the Constitution, and the First Amendment is something that’s sacred and protected and we want to ensure people are able to express their point of view, no matter what it is.”

As protesters briefly stopped and sat down the bust in the middle of Broadway before continuing the march in the street, tourists and patrons of honky tonks booed from the sidewalks and held their cellphones up to film and photograph the group.

Members of SURJ said they decided to march to Broadway because the FOP had planned a “Night Out in Nashville Bash,” including taking attendees on a tour of bars and restaurants downtown.

Afterward, both Howey and Heather Cronk, co-director of SURJ, said they saw individuals wearing “FOP” shirts watching on as the protesters marched on Broadway.

Other demonstrations in Nashville

Though the march Monday night drew the most attention to the group’s anti-FOP and anti-white supremacy message, it was one of three actions in which SURJ had engaged over the course of two days.

Earlier Monday, as U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions began addressing the FOP conference, three SURJ demonstrators unfurled a banner inside of the Opryland convention center reading “’God bless Jeff Sessions’ – David Duke,” the text of a tweet in March by Duke, a leader in the American white supremacist movement and former KKK imperial wizard.

The SURJ members quickly left the conference before being questioned about the banner, Cronk said.

On Sunday, representatives from SURJ and other groups hung from interstate overpasses around Nashville several banners criticizing the Fraternal Order of Police, Cronk said.

One banner read “Grand Wizards to Grand Lodges,” the former reference to a Ku Klux Klan leadership position and the latter to the “lodge” regional grouping structure of the FOP. The phrase was followed by “White Supremacy By Another Name,” and a drawing of a police badge bearing “FOP.”

Another sign read “Fraternal Order of Police Protects Killer Cops,” in addition to a banner stating “Fire Officer Lippert.”

Joshua Lippert is a Metro Nashville officer who in February fatally shot Jocques Clemmons, 31, at the James A. Cayce Homes public housing complex in East Nashville.

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Following an internal affairs investigation, Metro police said in May that Lippert acted in self-defense by firing three shots at Clemmons, who reportedly picked up his gun and failed to comply with directions to drop the weapon.

Davidson County District Attorney Glenn Funk announced following the department’s internal investigation that his office wouldn’t pursue charges against Lippert.

Earlier this month, the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Nashville, along with the FBI and Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division, announced the agencies had completed a review of investigations by both Metro police and the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation and that no further action was necessary.

After the announcement by federal authorities, the Nashville FOP released a statement in support of Lippert.

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Metro Police Chief Steve Anderson hasn’t yet announced whether Lippert will be disciplined in connection with the shooting.

Removal of sheet and bust

Within half an hour of demonstrators placing the Crutcher bust and sheet at the Sam Davis monument, Tennessee Highway Patrol troopers — with the help of the Nashville Fire Department cutting the chains — had removed the items from outside the Tennessee State Capitol.

The statue memorializes Davis, a Confederate scout from Smyrna who was hanged by Union forces in 1863 after being captured as a courier.

No one was charged in connection with the Capitol demonstration Monday, which didn’t appear to cause any damage to the monument.