It’s been two days since Dallas got the go-ahead to remove a tribute to Gen. Robert E. Lee from an Oak Lawn park.

And each night since, a group of protesters has kept watch at Lee Park, determined to see the statue stay put.

The City Council voted 13-1 on Wednesday to remove the monument immediately. A temporary injunction delayed its removal, but a federal judge removed that hurdle a day later.

Now all that’s complicating its removal is finding the right equipment to do the job — and, potentially, the handful of demonstrators camping out there.

Among them is William Fears, a 30-year-old construction worker from Houston who marched in last month’s “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Va.

That demonstration, billed as a protest against removing another statue of the general, turned deadly and put the spotlight on Confederate monuments across the country.

Fears, one of six Unite the Right marchers featured in a Chicago Tribune article, says he doesn't belong to any "alt-right" or white supremacist group, but he doesn't mind one label.

“Nazi is like the N-word for white people,” he said. “And I just embrace it.”

Fears and another protester spent the night in the park Friday, while four others called it quits shortly after midnight, saying they’d be back after getting some sleep. Some used social media to stream video of the statue and police on duty at the park in hopes of drawing a larger crowd.

Alan Lesselyong, whose apartment overlooks Lee Park, brought the protesters food and sat with them.

“I want to support the people protesting,” he said, though he said he wouldn’t participate. “Every American has the right to free speech, including white supremacists. And Nazis.”

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Lyndsay Knecht spoke to the protesters for an audio documentation project, and Fears told her about his time in Charlottesville.

“It’s so weird being 10 feet from someone who was there,” Knecht said later. “It makes me sick.”