Concrete barriers installed around Lee statue in Virginia

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press


Updated 8:52 am CDT, Wednesday, June 17, 2020



RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Concrete barriers were installed Wednesday morning around the statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee that has been ordered to be removed from a prominent avenue in Virginia's capital city, hours after demonstrators tore down a different Confederate monument.

Crews in Richmond began installing what appeared to be about 3-foot-tall (1-meter-tall) cement blocks along the sidewalk surrounding the statue on Monument Avenue, according to video obtained by news outlets. Gov. Ralph Northam announced earlier this month that the statue would be removed and placed in storage while its future was determined.

Lawsuits have been filed seeking to block the move.

The Virginia Department of General Services said it was erecting the barriers “to protect the safety of everyone speaking out to make their voices heard as well as the structure itself,” according to a statement from the agency.

Read more: https://www.chron.com/news/article/Protesters-in-Richmond-tear-down-another-15345598.php

[raging moderate]

1. Great idea! Now just build them higher! Maybe 50 feet high!

That way, sane people won't have to look at it.

[KS Toronado]

6. 50 feet ought to do it, out of sight, out of mind

plus the maga crowd couldn't display it elsewhere

[Alacritous Crier]

2. Concrete metaphor.

This country has a lot of very sick people running it.

[Progressive dog]

3. Those monuments to traitors

should never have existed. The murderous leaders of the proposed nation based on slavery instead of equality should be remembered as the despicable monsters that they were.

[Coleman]

4. Take them down and move them from the public square

Move them to confederate cemetaries, battlegrounds, their homesteads (Lee's house), Trump hotel lobbies and other properties, line the southern border making them part of the wall, drop them in protected marine areas to serve as artificial reefs and tourist attractions...

How about at stadiums of SEC teams (not Missouri). Maybe that would result in the weakening of the SEC and strenthening of northern, western, and Northeastern conferences, go Orangemen.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

5. You might not know this, but the proper name for Lee's house is "Arlington."

Well, one of them. It's had several names.

Arlington House, The Robert E. Lee Memorial