Gen. Albert Pike

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. ...

D.C. Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton introduced a bill to remove a statue of a Confederate general near Judiciary Square.

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.

Amid ongoing protests, a group of people toppled the statue of Albert Pike in D.C. Pike was a general in the Confederacy. News4’s Derrick Ward reports.

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.