Demopolis, Alabama Mayor Mike Grayson is seeking “prayer, peace, understanding and unity” after a town police officer crashed into a Confederate monument early Saturday morning.

While on patrol, the officer ran into the monument at the intersection of Capital and Main Streets at 3:30 am.

Chief of Police Tommie Reese released a statement about the incident:

In the early morning hours of Saturday July 16, 2016, a Demopolis Police Officer while on patrol ran into the Confederate Monument on Capital and Main Street.

Demopolis Police Chief Tommie Reese said that his department is doing an internal investigation into the accident.

Reese also stated that the officer was not hurt in the accident and that he has been placed on administrative leave pending the outcome of the investigation.

He ended with a rather peculiar, “This was an accident and nothing else.”

On Monday, Reese revealed the officer had fallen asleep, which resulted in him ramming the monument, the West Alabama Watchman reports.

Demopolis Public Works crews took down the statue atop the monument after the accident, according to the paper.

Mayor Grayson is urging residents to attend a prayer rally at the monument on Monday. He writes in a Facebook post:

In light of the accident involving the confederate monument, I’m asking for everyone who loves Demopolis to meet me at the monument Monday, July 18, at 5:30 p.m.

The purpose of this meeting is for prayer, peace, understanding and unity in our community. No more no less.

I would hope that we could get 1,000 people in the street for the purpose of good. This is a demonstration not so much to protest anything but to promote.

In light up the update, the mayor suspended the rally.

According to Waymarking.com, the memorial was erected in 1910 by The Marengo Rifles Chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy and dedicated to “Our Confederate Dead.”