Richmond – Richmond, Virginia Mayor, Lemar Stoney on Wednesday ordered the immediate removal of all Confederate statues on city land, saying he was using his emergency…
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Richmond, Virginia Mayor, Lemar Stoney on Wednesday ordered the immediate removal of all Confederate statues on city land, saying he was using his emergency powers to speed up the healing process for the former capital of the Confederacy.
„Fellow Richmonders, today I order the immediate removal of Confederate monuments from their pedestals,“ Mayor Levar Stoney (D) said in an address announcing the order, noting that city officials had already begun the process of removing monuments to former Confederate leaders, reports The Hill.
Stoney’s decision comes weeks after Virginia Governor Ralph Northam ordered the removal of the most prominent and imposing Confederate statue along Richmond’s Monument Avenue, that of Confederate Gen.
