The mayor of Richmond, Va., ordered the immediate removal of about a dozen Confederate statues, citing public safety concerns and a need for healing in a city still grappling with its legacy as a capital of the Confederacy
Richmond’s mayor on Wednesday used emergency powers to order the immediate removal of about a dozen Confederate statues, citing public safety concerns and a need for healing in a city still grappling with its legacy as the capital of the Confederacy during the Civil War.
A crane hoisted an equestrian statue of Confederate Gen. Stonewall Jackson from the pedestal where it had stood since 1919 and onto a flatbed truck. The mayor said crews would haul away the rest of the statues, some of which line Monument Avenue, in coming...
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