Protesters pull down Confederate statue in Richmond's Monroe Park

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By SABRINA MORENO Richmond Times-Dispatch 1 hr ago

Update 10:45 p.m.: Protesters toppled a Confederate statue from its pedestal in Monroe Park on Saturday night.

After a day and evening of peaceful protests and marches in Richmond and its suburbs, protesters using ropes pulled down a statue honoring Confederate Gen. Williams Carter Wickham, which has stood in the park since 1891.

Most of the protesters who had marched through the city Saturday night had already dispersed when the statue was taken down. After it fell, one person urinated on the statue and then ran away.

About an hour after the incident in Monroe Park, nearly 40 cars were seen surrounding the Lee statue, blocking traffic along Monument Avenue.

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[Hoyt]

1. All for removing/destroying/defacing racist memorials.

Don’t think we’ll miss, or forget, the heritage of hatred.

[Iggo]

2. Good.

Shoulda happened in 1892.

[greyl]

3. I'm reeeealy hopeful about November lately.

We'll still need to figure out how to communicate with and educate Trumpists IRL locally.

[Iggo]

4. Feeling better about it every day.

[Skittles]

5. not a big fan of vandalism but........

I have hard time drumming up any concern for.......confederate statues.

[rusty quoin]

6. I like it.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

7. Aw schucks

What ever will the white supremacist's do?

[Vdizzle]

8. They will live and work in Minnesota and register and vote in Florida.

And then claim the democrats are the ones committing voter fraud.