The Lake County Board of Commissioners voted 4-1 to ask the governor to find somewhere else to put a nine-foot-tall bronze statue of General Edmund Kirby Smith
Lake County is the site of the notorious “Groveland Four” convictions of a group of Black men wrongfully accused of raping a white woman in 1949, considered by many as a glaring example of racial injustice.“This decision will bring our community together,” said Leslie Campione, the commission’s chair. “This is the right decision.”
The office of Governor Ron DeSantis, who signed a pardon for the Groveland Four last year, had no immediate comment on the fate of the Smith statue. Campione said the commission had heard from both sides of the issue before Tuesday’s vote, and she believed that those in favour of the statue were “pure in their motives” to collect and display historical artifacts.
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