A 75-foot-tall monument to fallen Confederate soldiers has been removed from North Carolina’s State Capitol grounds in Raleigh. Gov. Roy Cooper says he “ordered the Confederate monuments on the Capitol grounds be moved to protect public safety.”
Hundreds of protesters celebrated Juneteeth in Raleigh before the statues were pulled down.RALEIGH, N.C. -- Spectators in North Carolina's capital cheered Sunday morning as work crews finished the job started by protesters Friday night and removed a Confederate statue from the top of a 75-foot monument.
Sunday’s work follows the removal of two other Confederate statues on the state Capitol grounds in Raleigh on Saturday. A 2015 law bars removal of the statues without approval of a state historical commission, but Cooper said he’s acting under a public-safety exception to the law out of concern for the danger presented when protesters seek to topple the statues themselves.
In Baltimore, a statue and memorial to George Washington in a city park were vandalized with red paint. The Baltimore Sun reports that the memorial in Druid Hill Park in northwest Baltimore also had the words “Destroy Racists” and the initials for the Black Lives Matter movement written on the base.Baltimore removed several statues and memorials linked to the Confederacy in 2017.
As statues and memorials to the Confederacy have been targeted across the South, prompted by the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis, protesters have also at times targeted Founding Fathers who were slaveholders, including Washington.
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