Stonewall Jackson Statue Comes Down Along Richmond's Monument Avenue

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Source: USA Today

(1 hr ago). RICHMOND, Va. - The city of Richmond has made good on its promise to take down all the Confederate statues along Monument Avenue, starting Wednesday afternoon with the removal of the Stonewall Jackson statue.

Mayor Levar Stoney cited "emergency powers" in ordering the removal of the four city-owned memorials along the iconic Richmond avenue. Citizens gathered around the spot where the Jackson statue stood for many years to watch city workers hoist the bronze memorial off of its stone pedestal tagged with graffiti ever since unrest in Richmond began several weeks ago.

Monument Avenue has served as a sort of epicenter for protests calling for equality in racial justice. For weeks, protesters on both sides of the issue have congregated at the memorials staging rallies and in some instances clashing with Richmond Police. Richmond officials announced last month that they would pass an ordinance to remove the statues in conjunction with newly enacted state law allowing localities reign over Confederate monuments located on public property. But on Wednesday, Stoney declared an emergency exists along Monument Avenue that warrants immediate takedown. Richmond taking down Confederate statues: Is this the end for other Confederate memorials?

"Failing to remove the statues now poses a severe, immediate and growing threat to public safety," Stoney said in a statement. "For the last 33 consecutive days, people have been gathering in large numbers in our city. And as the COVID-19 pandemic continues to surge and protesters attempt to take down Confederate statues themselves or confront others who are also doing so, the risk grows for serious illness, injury or death."...

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- Stonewall Jackson's Great-Great-Grandsons Call for Removal of Confederate Monuments, Aug. 17, 2017.

[Aristus]

1. Good.

This was a guy who actually thought to himself: "I think I'll go sneaking around behind enemy lines at night and then return to my own lines without warning while my troops are on high alert".

Yeah. They built a statue to that guy...

[ProfessorGAC]

2. I Prefer Generals That Don't Get Shot!

That's what I expect from PINO, after what he said about McCain.
In this case, I don't prefer the traitor Jackson, alive or dead.
He had a statue!
A statue to a traitor, armed insurrectionist from the losing side. Who by the way, SURRENDERED! So, they were quitters too!
Why the statue in the first place?