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High court: Charlottesville can remove Confederate statues
MATTHEW BARAKAT and MICHAEL KUNZELMAN, Associated Press
April 1, 2021
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1of3FILE - In this Wednesday, Aug. 23, 2017 file photo, city workers drape a tarp over a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee in Emancipation park in Charlottesville, Va., intended to symbolize the city s mourning for Heather Heyer who was killed while protesting a white nationalist rally earlier in the month. On Thursday, April 1, 2021, Virginia s highest court ruled that the city of Charlottesville can take down this and another statue of a Confederate general.Steve Helber/APShow MoreShow Less
2of3FILE - In this Saturday, July 8, 2017 file photo, protesters carry signs in front of a statue of Confederate Gen. Stonewall Jackson as they demonstrate against a KKK rally in Justice Park in Charlottesville, Va. On Thursday, April 1, 2021, Virginia s highest court ruled that the city of Charlottesville can take down
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In this 2018 file photo, a visitor eats lunch in front of a statue of Robert E. Lee that is surrounded by fencing and a No Trespassing sign in Charlottesville.
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The court found that the law, which was passed by the General Assembly in 1997, was not retroactive to monuments or statues erected before that date. The statues of Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson were erected in Charlottesville in the 1920 s.
In 2017, the city announced plans to remove them, setting off a deadly rally by white supremacists and years of legal challenges. According to the court s ruling, the city had the power to remove the statues all along. .The Statues were erected long before there was a statute which both authorized a city’s erection of a war memorial or monument and regulated the disturbance of or interference with that war memorial or monument, Justice Bernard Goodwyn wrote in the opinion.
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