I need someones opinion

Yes.
Protesting won women the vote, liberated India from the British Raj, ended the Vietnam War, has saved numerous forests and rivers from destruction, has helped improve the safety and rights of animals, has won gays the right to marry and freedom from persecution in some parts of the world...
There's an enormously long list of reforms that demonstrations have won.

History will remain what it is, but will also be revised whenever new evidence is found - and understanding history is vital to understanding why and how our society is as it is now.

Statues of victors don't simply mark facts of history; they also glorify the values of the rulers of that time, and the values of the winners.
Some old values, like slavery, do not deserve to continue to be glorified in any way. They would still have a legitimate place in a historical museum.

Such symbols in public places tell the oppressed that the authorities and systems of government ensure that their lives matter less.

If you doubt this, consider, would you wish to see statues of Hitler, Pol Pot, Idi Amin, Kublai Khan or Mao Tse Tung in your public environment?

larold99 i think protest just makes a point there is a big issue peaceful ones are quiet acceptable whether the government of the day treat this with any serious consideration is another thing but when it comes to rioting and vandalism that is not acceptable i can only think they did this to these statues as they where considered people who had a racist connection

I don’t know your motives in asking this so I’m going to assume you want an honest answer. People are angry, because historical attitudes carry over into the present and we are [b]not[/b] as far away from that past as you may think.
The statues, the flags, the memorabilia, all belong in museums so they can be observed, studied, remembered as a time when a percentage of this country, founded on principles of [b]freedom[/b], seceded from the union and went to war for the continued right to own other human beings as the basis of their economy and their social structure. Since we don’t live in those times and are claiming to abhor racism now, we should be [b]eager[/b] to move them there.

And I'm sure someone has everything on video, but none of them ever get arrested.

In Germany some of the concentration camps were turned into museums and all schools must vist. Maybe they should do that in the US. Move the statues to museums.