Tracking the statues that have been taken down by governments or protesters during the worldwide protests.
One consequence of the worldwide protests sparked by the death of African-American George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police has been a renewed focus on removing monuments long deemed racist. Some governments are trying to get ahead of demonstrators, removing statues so they can be relocated, while other monuments have been toppled by protesters.
“Alexandria, like all great cities, is constantly changing and evolving,” said Wilson in a tweet that included images of a crew removing the statue.On May 31, protesters attempted to tear down the Confederate Soldiers & Sailors Monument, a 52-foot-tall obelisk in Linn Park which commemorates the lives of southern soldiers killed in the Civil War. The park is named after Charles Linn, a captain in the Confederate Navy.
“This particular statue has been subject to repeated vandalism here in Boston, and given the conversations that we’re certainly having right now in our city of Boston and throughout the country, we’re also going to take time to assess the historic meaning of this action,” Walsh said.
On June 8, the city removed a statue of former Confederate officer John Breckinridge Castleman. The city said it would take the statue to a storage facility for cleaning before relocating it to Castleman’s burial site in a nearby cemetery. “Moving this statue will not change the past,” said Mayor Sandy Stimpson. “It is about removing a potential distraction so we may focus clearly on the future of our city. That conversation, and the mission to create One Mobile, continues today.”On June 1, four protesters pulled down the statue of former General Robert E. Lee outside a high school with the same name.
The state has said that the statue would be returned to its base but would remain in storage until it was repaired.On June 3, crews removed the statue of former Philadelphia mayor and police commissioner Frank Rizzo from its base near City Hall, a long-standing demand by activists and a step promised by the city in 2017. A week earlier, demonstrators had attempted to take down the statue on their own, vandalizing it in the process.
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