A Black Lives Matter protester was seriously injured when a toppled statue fell on his head and knocked him unconscious.
A witness told a Wavy.com reporter that the injured man was seen "convulsing on the ground" after the statue hit him during the protest in Portsmouth, Virginia.
It comes after the statue of slave trader Edward Coulston was pushed into the harbour during an anti-racism protest in Bristol, fuelling a worldwide effort to remove statues associated with slavery and racism.
Footage of the Portsmouth demonstration showed a fallen Confederate statue in the middle of a large bloodstain on the ground.
The protesters began pulling down the statue at around 8.20pm but the rope snapped causing it to fall, local media reports.
"There were individuals at the front, they were pulling and working at the legs for some time and trying to get it down," said the witness.
"And there was a gentleman who was directly in front of the statue and when the statue finally did give way it came and fully hit him in the head.
“You could see his skull was actually showing, he was convulsing on the ground."
He added that the injured man "lost a significant amount of blood".
Sergeant Misty Holley of the Portsmouth Police Department said a man sustained serious injuries and was hospitalised.
The Portsmouth monument sits on a site where there used to be a whipping post to punish slaves, reports the Virginian Pilot.
It comes after the death of George Floyd sparked anti-racism demonstrations around the world.
Mr Floyd died in police custody, after an officer refused to lift his knee from his neck, despite protests that he could not breathe.
His death sparked international Black Lives Matter protests, demanding an end to police brutality and the removal of memorials to historic figures with racist associations.
A statue of Christopher Columbus in Richmond, Virginia was torn down by protesters, set on fire and then dumped into a lake on Tuesday.
The statue was toppled less than two hours after protesters gathered in the city's Byrd Park chanting for the statue to be taken down.
Leading Democrat, and House Speaker, Nancy Pelosi called for Confederate statues to be removed from the streets of the country’s capital while US President Donald Trump denounced the removal of "beautiful" Confederate statues.
London Mayor Sadiq Khan has launched a “diversity commission” to investigate which statues should be retained in the city and which new ones should be erected to represent the achievements of all Londoners, particularly black and minority ethnic Londoners
