As we reported earlier this month, the Memphis, Tennessee, City Council unanimously voted to dig up the bodies of Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest and his wife. But a group of anti-Confederate activists simply couldn't wait and took matters into their own hands, Kyle Olson reported at the American Mirror Thursday, citing a report at WREG.

According to WREG, the activists grabbed a shovel and dug up a small patch of grass next to Forrest's grave. The group, known as the "Commission on Religion and Racism," say they've wanted Forrest and the statue honoring him gone for a long time, and they're apparently not ready to let the law stand in their way.

“We are going to bring the back hoe, the tractors and the men with the equipment to raise Bedford Forrest from the soil of Memphis,” said group activist Dr. Isaac Richmond, a failed candidate for Congress. According to Richmond, removing Forrest and his wife will somehow help end racism.

“If he’s gone, some of this racism and race-hate might be gone,” he said. “We got a fresh shovel full, and we hope that everybody else will follow suit and dig him up.” Richmond, however, did not say what he intended to do with Forrest's remains.