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The monument, known as the Jefferson Davis Memorial Chair, was allegedly stolen from the Old Live Oak Cemetery in Selma by a group calling itself “White Lies Matter.” Advertisement Hide
The chair for Davis, who served as the president of the Confederate States from 1861 to 1865, is valued at $500,000.
News of the theft began circulating online Monday after the activist group claiming responsibility issued a list of demands.
Speaking with AL.com, White Lies Matter said it would give the banner back to its owners, a group known as the United Daughters of the Confederacy (UDC), if the organization agreed to hang a banner outside of its headquarters in Richmond, Virginia.
Updated: 2:47 PM PDT April 6, 2021
After a Confederate monument was stolen from an Alabama cemetery last month, a group now claiming responsibility is threatening to turn the ornate sculpture of a chair into a toilet.
The strange saga began on March 20, when the United Daughters of the Confederacy reported the Jefferson Davis Memorial Chair had gone missing from a Selma cemetery. District Attorney Michael Jackson said an email signed White Lies Matter was sent to media outlets Monday claiming to be from the person, or people, who took the chair.
The Associated Press could not confirm the authenticity of the claim and the email s author did not identify themselves.
“Selma is like ‘The Twilight Zone,’” District Attorney Michael Jackson told The Associated Press. “It’s never a dull moment here.”
The email said the chair will be returned only if the United Daughters of the Confederacy agrees to display a banner at their Richmond, Virginia, headquarters bearing a quote from a Black Liberation Army activist on Friday, the anniversary of the South’s surrender in the Civil War. If they don’t, the chair gets turned into a toilet, the email said.
“Jefferson Davis doesn’t need it anymore. He’s long dead. … Like most Confederate monuments, it mostly exists to remind those who’s freedom had to be purchased in blood, that there still exists a portion of our country that is more than willing to continue to spill blood to avoid paying that debt down,” the note said.
Ransom note threatens to make Confederate monument a toilet
KIM CHANDLER, Associated Press
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After a Confederate monument was stolen from an Alabama cemetery last month, a group now claiming responsibility is threatening to turn the ornate sculpture of a chair into a toilet.
The strange saga began on March 20, when the United Daughters of the Confederacy reported the Jefferson Davis Memorial Chair had gone missing from a Selma cemetery. District Attorney Michael Jackson said an email signed “White Lies Matter” was sent to media outlets Monday claiming to be from the person, or people, who took the chair.
The Associated Press could not confirm the authenticity of the claim and the email s author did not identify themselves.
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