Washington The Democratic mayor of Richmond, Virginia, invoked his emergency powers on Wednesday to remove multiple Confederate monuments in the city, including a statue honoring Confederate Gen. Thomas"Stonewall" Jackson, from the city's historic Monument Avenue.
Crews spent part of Wednesday afternoon removing the Jackson statue as scores of onlookers watched the monument honoring the late slave owner who fought to preserve slavery begin to come down after standing in the city for more than 100 years. The bronze statue finally came down just before 5 p.m. ET as a thunderstorm drenched the crowd, which had erupted into cheers.
Took how many year's! Can't erase history you know!!!
Who gave mayor's emergency powers to override state laws?
The confederate statues shouldn’t have been put up in the first place
This is wrong on every level. Stop taking history away from future generations.
When you have statues to men that turned on their country and killed US soldiers called monument row its needed to come down a long time ago.
Not that I care about the Statues, but I am concerned with one person assuming they can just Assume Power. What Viable Emergency existed to give this Mayor Power over the City Counsel and the Citizens?🤔
Those who don't know history are doomed to repeat it. Well civil war here we come!
Nothing on Jessie Taggart !
Put all confederate monuments in one museum, they are part of the countries history , not in parks and streets.
“Those who don't know history are doomed to repeat it.” ― Edmund Burke
Beurocracy is corrupt!
Can’t touch Stone Mountain MF’ers!
Good fuckin riddance!
Good. I hope Stonewall Jackson's feelings weren't hurt after he betrayed the United States cos he really liked raping black women, now has his statue removed. Poor lil guy.
stupid
Losers don’t get statues anywhere else
good news
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They should be relocated to a designated confederate memorial area or a private area!
Nice!!! Screw Donald trump and his endless executive orders when he doesn’t get his way.
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Another political figure head that needs to give out his home address
Pathetic. Stoney is a Racist. CNNis🐴💩
Giving an angry child what it wants will only spoil it, wanting more. not make it satisfied.
Elect Democrats = Erase our history Elect Democrats = Riots, Looting, Destruction Elect Democrats = Erode your Constitutional rights I dare you to stay home on Election Day 2020.
I cant wait for them to clean up the Gettysburg battle field and throw away all of those racist confederate cannons littering the landscape.
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It should be relocated to a designated Confederate memorial area or a private area!
What sort of 'emergency' required this step?
Pretty soon his ghost will come forth to take his vengeance. Ron Burgundy predicted it!
What a beautiful sight to see it go‼️👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾 StonewallJackson
Good riddance remove the HATE & make the real changes to stop propping up discrimination and racism this country was built by slaves using force murder & violence committed by the people in these “statues” & “monuments of HATE”
removing history be like AAAAAAA TYREESE PLEASE DILUTE MY GENE POOL
Good, Now what about the indigenous people of Canada & how they were conquered by France? Why no riots in Canada? & what about Canada prime minister justinTrudea wearing black face 4 times in the last 10 years? Where's the outrage?! blm BlackLivesMatter StonewallJackson
Good. Enough of honoring tyrants!
Next the one in Williamsburg, VA
This all makes so much sense. I like to see them in a museum. Racial equality for all.
No love lost for any of the figures removed but it's hardly an emergency when the statues have been there for decades. The mayor should have had a city council vote so there is clear buy-in and a respect for the legislative and democratic processes.
Maybe the mayor of Richmond can call the Lt Governor of Texas Dan Patrick and talk some sense into that dumb ass
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About goddamned time. Now can we start teaching all students actual history, not this bullshit that half of which I had to learn on my own as a grown-ass adult?
Hell yea!
enjoy erasing your democratic history... only to be repeated...
The communist democrats love to erase history.
Politicians need 2 grow a back bone & tell Blacks, Antifa & BLM society isn't taking down history that offends them. mature people don't take down history. if U take down white statues/history then take down black history/statues including MLK, jr. that's equality. MM arr
How the hell is it an emergency? Are the statues going to come to life and start killing people?
No longer a historic Area. Just hope history is not lost also bc history good and bad are teaching moments
Black Lives Matter movement is calling all home improvement and like wise stores to stop selling White Paint, claiming it's rasist.
I grew up in Virginia. School names: 1. Stonewall Jackson Elementary 2. Woodrow Wilson Jr. High 3. Robert E. Lee Sr. High
Time for Patriots to march into Richmond
Let's replace them with statues of John McCain. Other suggestions?
And I thought that POTUS was going to spit brimestone and fire if he was going to let this happen... Good move, Mayor of Richmond, VA. Show realDonaldTrump that racism and hate ARE NOT part of America and must be expunged, just like POTUS RemoveTrumpNext✊😤
People, I hope you understand the truth about why the Dems are adamant about removing the history of slavery. Because, it was the Dems that owned the slaves and the Republican that freed the slaves. No history no proof. Think people think!!!
Awesome news...maybe this is what Trump meant by MAGA
Just another Democrat Mayor trying to save his job and caving to the Liberal Left.....Let's just remove all of our History ..right CityRichmondVA
I never knew emergency powers of a mayor included taking down things that offend him/her. Boy, are we going to be in trouble if every mayor had this amount of 'I'm offended' emergency powers. 'I'm offended by guns. I'm offended by what that person on Twitter said. REMOVE THEM!'
What an idiotic decision!
Mayor of Richmond is a JMU grad! Proud of him!
Finally, our problems have been solved.
The war has come to mean slavery but we must also remember that it was about state rights vs the federal goverment. These day we have to remember the fed is trying control us and we as individuals must stand up for what we believe.
Why are we honoring the dudes who seceded and lost the war
StonewallJackson: learn about him, yes. Honor him, no. Substitute any other Confederate leader’s name and repeat. Richmond TakeThemDown Virginia
Confederates were/are treasonous soldiers.
Put this on ue FAKE NEWS channel!!!
By all means, let's erase the past at the same time our leaders are erasing our future.
Good. Do it now
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