Richmond judge extends injunction barring removal of Lee statue on Monument Avenue
Source: Richmond Times-Disptach
VIRGINIA
Richmond judge extends injunction barring removal of Lee statue on Monument Avenue
BY JUSTIN MATTINGLY Richmond Times-Dispatch 17 min ago
Virginia will have to continue to hold off on taking down the Robert E. Lee statue on Richmond's Monument Avenue.
A Richmond judge on Thursday extended indefinitely an injunction barring the state from removing the statue, the most well-known Confederate symbol in the former capital of the Confederacy. The statue has received increased scrutiny in the three weeks of protests in Richmond over police brutality and racial injustice.
The statue "belongs to the people," said Richmond Circuit Court Judge Bradley B. Cavedo, who has set another hearing in the case for July 23.
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Thursday's ruling and the June 8 injunction came in response to a lawsuit filed by William C. Gregory, the great-grandson of two signatories of the 1890 deed that transferred ownership of the land over to the state. The lawsuit argues that under the terms of the agreement and a legislature-approved resolution, the state is supposed to consider the monument and the area around it "perpetually sacred" and "faithfully guard it and affectionately protect it."
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(This is a developing story. It will be updated.)
Read more: https://www.richmond.com/news/virginia/richmond-judge-extends-injunction-barring-removal-of-lee-statue-on-monument-avenue/article_2494d3df-fcf5-5c5d-b66e-5fe3c01e9481.html
Hat tip, WTOP
LiberalFighter
(50,504 posts)Miguelito Loveless
(4,438 posts)The majority of those people want it GONE.
Cirque du So-What
(25,812 posts)nevergiveup
(4,744 posts)then the people will remove it, one way or the other.
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Ford_Prefect
(7,824 posts)people of Virginia. In Lee's day, Blacks were not considered to be people in Virginia. If it belongs to the people of Virginia then it seems to me they have the right to move it into storage with other out of date fashions.
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)It's just another toxic site.