Former Obama “Homeland Security” Secretary Jeh Johnson is applauding U.S. cities and states that are demanding the removal of Confederate statues and memorials because he believes they are a threat to “homeland security.”

During an appearance on “This Week,” Johnson embraced the elimination of history.

“What alarms so many of us from a security perspective is that so many of the statues, the Confederate monuments are now modern day becoming symbols and rallying points for white nationalism, for neo-Nazis, for the KKK, and this is most alarming,” Johnson told Martha Raddatz.

“We fought a world war against Nazism,” he said. “The KKK reined terror on African-Americans for generations.

“And so a number of Americans, rightly, Republican and Democrat are very concerned and very alarmed and I salute those in cities and states who are taking down a lot of these monuments for reasons of public safety and security,” Johnson said.

“And that’s not a matter of political correctness, it’s a matter of public safety and homeland security,” he added.

On Saturday, an Indiana man didn’t wait for his city or state to take down the monument.

RTV6 reports:

A man has been arrested after police say he damaged the Confederate statue at an Indianapolis park with a hammer on Saturday.

Police were called to Garfield Park just after noon after someone reported a man was destroying a statue.

When Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department officers arrived they found the man hitting the statue with a hammer and chipping pieces off of it.

Police arrested Anthony Ventura, 30, at the scene. He’s charged with vandalism.

Indianapolis has been debating whether to tear down the monument.