Southern cities handled this well years ago with public meetings, removal and repositioning of statues, etc. All legal and with full and engaged public discussions. No problems. New Orleans is a good example.
The vandalism now foist upon us is centered in a few northern liberal cities. Slavery was not legal in Seattle or Minneapolis but still churches are burnt and synagogues defaced there while the mayors refuse to enforce the law. No Confederate statues or schools of course so terrorists tear down statues of Lincoln, women and abolitionists because they were white.
The Christian churches and the abolitionists ended slavery yet they are attacked? Jews were leaders in the civil rights movement. This is criminality, not protest.