JUST IN: A statue honoring Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee was removed Saturday morning in Charlottesville, Virginia, nearly 4 years after white supremacist and neo-Nazi groups stormed the town to protect it.
"Taking down this statue is one small step closer to the goal of helping Charlottesville, Virginia, and America, grapple with the sin of being willing to destroy Black people for economic gain," Charlottesville Mayor Nikuyah Walker told reporters and observers in a speech near the monument.
The Jackson statue has been up since 1921 and the Lee statue was first placed in 1924.They will be stored until the City Council decides to sell, destroy or otherwise dispose of them.Under state law, the city was required to solicit parties interested in taking the statues during an offer period that ended Thursday. It received 10 responses to its solicitation.
White supremacist and neo-Nazi groups descended on Charlottesville in August 2017 for a violent"Unite the Right" rally to protest efforts to remove monuments to those infamous 19th century military leaders. The protests turned deadly after James Alex Fields Jr. killed 32-year-old paralegal and civil rights activist
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