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Judge Issues a Surprise Ruling on Confederate Statues in Charlottesville
A Charlottesville, Va., Circuit Court judge ordered the city Tuesday to uncover its two Confederate statues in an unexpected ruling.
Judge Richard E. Moore denied the city’s request to keep its Robert E. Lee and Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson covered in black curtains until the August anniversary of the death of Heather Heyer, according to The Washington Post.
Heyer was marching with a crowd of Black Lives Matter and Antifa at the time of her death. A schizophrenic counterprotester and alleged Nazi rammed his car into the crowd, killing her.