{"id":3553,"date":"2020-06-07T10:31:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-07T07:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/protesters-topple-confederate-statue-in-virginia-capital\/"},"modified":"2020-06-07T10:31:00","modified_gmt":"2020-06-07T07:31:00","slug":"protesters-topple-confederate-statue-in-virginia-capital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/protesters-topple-confederate-statue-in-virginia-capital\/","title":{"rendered":"Protesters topple Confederate statue in Virginia capital"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Protesters topple Confederate statue in Virginia capital<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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June 7, 2020 |<\/span> 3:31am <\/p>\n

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\n The statue of Confederate Gen. Williams Carter Wickham lies on the ground after protesters pulled it down Saturday, June 6, 2020, in Monroe Park in Richmond, Va. The statue had stood in the park since 1891. <\/span>
\n Alexa Welch Edlund\/Richmond Times-Dispatch via A<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n

\n RICHMOND, Va. \u00a0\u2014 A small group of demonstrators toppled a statue of a Confederate general<\/a> in the former capital of the Confederacy late Saturday, following a day of largely peaceful protests in the Virginia city.<\/p>\n

The statue of Gen. Williams Carter Wickham was pulled from its pedestal in Monroe Park, a Richmond police spokeswoman said. She said she did not know if there were any arrests or damage done to the statue.<\/p>\n

A rope had been tied around the Confederate statue, which has stood since 1891, The Richmond Times-Dispatch reported, adding that someone urinated on the statue after it was pulled down. Photos and videos from the news<\/a>paper showed what app<\/a>eared to be red paint splashed or sprayed on the statue.<\/p>\n

In 2017, some of Wickham\u2019s descendants urged the city to remove the statue.<\/p>\n

Confederate monuments are a major flashpoint in Virginia and elsewhere in the South. Confederate memorials began coming down after a white supremacist killed nine black people at a Bible study in a church in South Carolina in 2015 and then again after the deadly white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, in 2017.<\/p>\n

Last week, Gov. Ralph Northam announced that a state-owned statue of former Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee would be removed from its perch on the famed Monument Avenue \u201cas soon as possible.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Lee statue is one of five Confederate monuments along Monument Avenue, a prestigious residential street and National Historic Landmark district. Monuments along the avenue have been rallying points during protests in recent days over Floyd\u2019s death, and they have been tagged with graffiti, including messages that say \u201cEnd police brutality\u201d and \u201cStop white supremacy.\u201d<\/p>\n

Richmond Mayor Levar Stoney last week announced plans to seek the removal of the other Confederate monuments along Monument Avenue, which include statues of Confederate President Jefferson Davis and Confederate Gens. Stonewall Jackson and J.E.B. Stuart. Those statues sit on city land, unlike the Lee statue, which is on state property.<\/p>\n

Stoney said he would introduce an ordinance July 1 to have the statues removed. That\u2019s when a new law goes into effect, which was signed earlier this year by Northam, that undoes an existing state law protecting Confederate monuments and instead lets local governments decide their fate.<\/p>\n

Wickham\u2019s statue stood in Monroe Park, about a mile away from the Lee statue and surrounded by the Virginia Commonwealth University campus.\n <\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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