Social justice warriors are with proud rebels in front of St. Louis, Missouri’s Confederate Memorial this week as city officials contemplate removing the 103-year-old landmark.

The imposing 32-foot-tall granite structure features a low relief figure of “The Angel of the Spirit of the Confederacy” overlooking a bronze sculpture of a family preparing for a young man to head off to war.

Protesters gathered in front of the monument Tuesday, where they toted Black Lives Matter signs, chanted “Blue lives murder” and spit on the memorial as police separated them from counterprotesters who came to defend their southern heritage, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports.

“What is this, you see a man going off to war and he’s being blessed by the angel of the Confederate,” one of the protesters yelled during the tense argument, according to KMOV. “In reality what he was doing was fighting to keep black families in chains.”

Supporters of Confederate memorial explained why they came out to the raucous gathering.

“We just thought we’d come down and represent the patriots and the confederates that fought in the war,” one unidentified man said. “That’s what our view on this statue is, this has nothing to do with racism.”

“Slavery was bad. We all agree upon that. A bad, bad thing. But, we look at this as a veteran memorial for fallen soldiers who left their wives, their daughters, and never returned,” he said.

“I think it’s a beautiful work of art, and I don’t want it in the midst of political battles that might go on two year (or) to see the monument permanently damaged,” another unidentified man told the news station.

At one point, police were forced to form a human chain to separate the groups as the protesters repeatedly chanted “black lives matter, blue lives murder.”

Officers keeping the peace did not appear amused.

The monument was ringed by a high waist metal barrier, but that didn’t prevent one of the social justice crusaders from jumping the barricade and scrawling a profane message, the Post-Dispatch reports.

The public feud followed calls from Mayor Lyda Krewson to remove the memorial over its supposed connection to slavery and white supremacy. It’s the latest in a national movement to erase all references to the Old South after a racist lunatic gunned down nine black worshipers at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina in 2015.

The culprit loved to pose with the Confederate flag on Facebook.

St. Louis City Alderwoman Sharon Tyrus introduced a bill this month to take the monument down, and city treasurer Tishaura Jones launched a GoFundMe campaign to raise $25,000 toward the effort, KMOV reports.

Regardless, city officials told the news site there’s no current plans in the works.

Police managed to prevent any serious damage to the monument or physical harm to protestors, but they couldn’t protect the structure all night.

Early Wednesday vandals targeted the monument with messages in blue spray paint that included “this is treason,” “stop defending injustice,” “no KKK,” “black lives matter,” and similar social justice slogans.

They also painted an anarchy symbol on the young man heading off to war.

City parks and recreation workers were at the site by 7 a.m. to begin the arduous task of removing the graffiti.