Dallas puts off issue of Confederate statue until officials come up with a resolution
DALLAS—Dallas officials haven't decided what to do with a statue of Robert E. Lee more than a year after the city removed it from a park formerly named after the Confederate general.
The city is keeping Alexander Phimister Proctor's statue of Lee housed in storage at Hensley Field, the former Naval Air Station, until officials come up with a resolution. But Dallas officials said they're first figuring out what to do with the Confederate War Memorial located near City Hall, The Dallas Morning News reported.
The Dallas City Council plans to consider the memorial issue in coming months, said Joey Zapata, assistant city manager. But the Lee statue is "not much of a priority right now for us," Zapata said.
The Confederate general's statue was removed from Lee Park in September 2017, following the deadly protests over the removal of a Lee statue in Charlottesville, Virginia. Dallas' Lee Park has since been renamed Oak Lawn Park.
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