Confederate statues

Virginia has removed from its iconic state capitol the busts and a statue honoring Confederate generals and officials

A Confederate statue that stood outside the Loudoun County courthouse was removed overnight Tuesday.  Photos show orange cones in the place of the statue in Leesburg, Virginia.  The county board of supervisors voted earlier this month to remove the statue, which the United Daughters of the Confederacy erected in 1908.  The Loudoun County chapter of the group hired a...

The state of Virginia plans to remove the large statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E

The Loudoun County Board of Supervisors voted Tuesday night to remove a Confederate statue that has stood outside the Leesburg Courthouse for 112 years. The United Daughters of the Confederacy erected this statue in 1908. The board approved having it taken down no later than Sept. 7. People from around the county showed up for the virtual board meeting and…

Work crews on Tuesday took down a monument to Confederate Gen. J.E.B. Stuart, the third major statue to be cleared away in less than a week as the Confederacy’s former capital rushes to remove symbols of oppression in response to protests against police brutality and racism. As a crowd cheered, crews strapped the huge bronze equestrian statue in harnesses...

Richmond Mayor Levar Stoney on Wednesday ordered the removal of all Confederate statues on city land. “We have an urgent need to protect the public,” Stoney said in a statement.

As demonstrators bring down statues and attempt to topple others, police in D.C. have put up fencing in multiple spots to prevent them from doing so. News4’s Shomari Stone reports from downtown D.C.

President Donald Trump personally requested that a statue of a Confederate general be put back up, less than a week after cheering protesters toppled it and set it on fire in a Washington, D.C., park, NBC News reports. Trump called Interior Sec. David Bernhardt and asked the Park Service to restore a statue of Brigadier General Albert Pike, two...

At a roundtable on the border wall on Tuesday, President Donald Trump offered to help states protect statues by imprisoning anyone caught defacing military monuments after accusing some state leaders of “being very weak in protecting their heritage and protecting their culture.” The president’s comments come after a growing call to remove statues honoring historical figures tied to slavery and...

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser decried property destruction and defended city police after demonstrators toppled and burned a Confederate statue on live TV Friday night.  A group of people used ropes to take down the statue of Gen. Albert Pike outside Metropolitan Police Department headquarters. With cameras rolling, demonstrators doused the bronze statue in lighter fluid and set it ablaze. ...

Demonstrators took down a statue of Confederate Gen. Albert Pike near Metropolitan Police Department headquarters late Friday. News4’s Shomari Stone was live at the scene.

Demonstrators set fire to a statue of Confederate Gen. Albert Pike near D.C. police headquarters after pulling it down late Friday. News4’s Shomari Stone was live at the scene.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., on Thursday announced that she has ordered the removal of portraits of four House speakers who served in the Confederacy that are on display at the Capitol, according to NBC News.

Virginia’s attorney general says a lawsuit seeking to stop the governor’s plan to remove a large statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E

Virginia’s attorney general is vowing to defend Gov. Ralph Northam’s plan to remove a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E

Protesters have torn down a statue of Confederate President Jefferson Davis along Richmond, Virginia’s famed Monument Avenue

Members of Congress are calling for Confederate figures to be removed from the U.S. Capitol. In a letter, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., Pelosi told a House-Senate committee with jurisdiction over the controversial topic that Confederate statues “pay homage to hate, not heritage. They must be removed.” Pelosi made the announcement on the very day President Donald Trump vowed...

Members of Congress are calling for Confederate statues to be removed from the U.S. Capitol. Scott MacFarlane reports past efforts have failed.

A judge in Richmond has issued an injunction preventing Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam’s administration from removing an iconic statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E

Virginia Governor Ralph Northam announced the Robert E. Lee statue in Richmond would be removed from Monument Avenue and placed in storage.