Richmond removes statue of Confederate Gen. J.E.B. Stuart

Crews attach straps to the statue Confederate General J.E.B. Stuart on Monument Avenue Tuesday July 7, 2020, in Richmond, Va. The statue is one of several that will be removed by the city as part of the Black Lives Matter reaction.

To cheers from a crowd, crews strapped the huge bronze equestrian statue in harnesses and used a crane to lift it from its granite base to be trucked away. Inscriptions on the base are filled with accolades to Stuart, who was fatally wounded by a Union soldier and died at age 31 on May 12, 1864.The Stuart monument is one of several targeted by protesters in Richmond since the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis prompted nationwide demonstrations. Police declared an unlawful assembly on June 21 after protesters tried to pull it down with ropes.

So much passion & action with changing names and taking down statues vs. educating and feeding RVA children. Many students are not receiving good nutrition or homeschool education during this pandemic & social movement. leftbehind headstart blm rvaprotests LevarStoney

POTUS wrapping himself in the Confederate flag. Don't sit this out, & be complicit in racism. Do something. Stop the systemicracism of American apartheid. Sign the petition to form a US Truth and Reconciliation Commission USTRC

Dumb

Whatever

Good. These were and will always be traitors and rebels. They have the blood of thousands of union soldiers on their hands. They fought to preserve the ‘right’ to own people as property! Good riddance.

Wow! I thought that I would never see this day. It's time for our nation to move away from honoring legacy symbols of slavery, whether they be monuments or even military post names (e.g., Fort Lee, Fort Bragg, Fort Gordon, etc.).

The cowardly ignorant strike again.

„Symbols of oppression“ ... what does this even mean ? Ppl are throwing lines like that without even knowing what that means ... it’s trending, in going to use it 😉

That isn't a symbol of oppression, idiots. DefundAP

Erasing history just as ISIS did at Palmyra and Afghanistan. Apostates

This should really help

Who knew so many Americans relied exclusively on monuments, rather than textbooks, documentaries, or museums, to learn their history? I wonder if our performance gap in math and science can be done away with simply by establishing more monuments to mathematicians and scientists..

Yeah all while people (including black people) are sold in Slavery TODAY in countries such as Libya, and others in the Middle East. People from almost every country are sold into sex slavery but yeah you go ahead and remove and pt yourself on the back. People today are STUPID!

I can't wait until conservatives start doing iconoclasm on mlk, Malcolm x, Harvey milk, and native American statues

Why are right wingers whining about the left being traitors, wanting to protect iconography of traitors that the left wants to remove? Asking for a friend.

“Symbols of oppression”. Very Orwellian language the “news” is putting out there.

If only the government could pass laws that help their people as quickly as they are removing statues, we’d have a thriving country.

well they were traitors..

Why wasn't anyone saying anything when these confed monuments were going up?

It's time to tear down ALL symbols of racism.

We should remove all iconography if Native American heritage. Native Americans practiced slavery and torture, and they LOST to the United States.

Figures J.E.B. Stuart is late again.

Pathetic.

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