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Alabama Attorney General sues Birmingham for hiding Confederate monument
What a surprise!
Montgomery Advertiser: The Alabama Attorney General's Office Wednesday sued the city of Birmingham for erecting plywood around a monument to Confederate sailors and soldiers.
The city began placing the wood around the monument in Linn Park Tuesday evening, days after a white nationalist rally at a Confederate monument in Charlottesville, Virginia, led to violence.
In a statement Wednesday, Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall said the action violated a law passed by the Alabama Legislature this year aimed at preserving historic structures.
"My office has determined that by affixing tarps and placing plywood around the Linn Park Memorial such that it is hidden from view, the defendants have 'altered' or 'otherwise disturbed' the memorial in violation of the letter and spirit of the Alabama Memorial Preservation Act," Marshall said in a statement.
Birmingham city workers use plywood panels to cover the Confederate Monument
in Linn Park, in Birmingham, Ala., Tuesday night, Aug. 15, 2017, on orders from Mayor William Bell. (Photo: AP)
The city began placing the wood around the monument in Linn Park Tuesday evening, days after a white nationalist rally at a Confederate monument in Charlottesville, Virginia, led to violence.
In a statement Wednesday, Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall said the action violated a law passed by the Alabama Legislature this year aimed at preserving historic structures.
"My office has determined that by affixing tarps and placing plywood around the Linn Park Memorial such that it is hidden from view, the defendants have 'altered' or 'otherwise disturbed' the memorial in violation of the letter and spirit of the Alabama Memorial Preservation Act," Marshall said in a statement.
Birmingham city workers use plywood panels to cover the Confederate Monument
in Linn Park, in Birmingham, Ala., Tuesday night, Aug. 15, 2017, on orders from Mayor William Bell. (Photo: AP)
The historic preservation law in question was only passed earlier this year when Birmingham city officials decided to remove this particular monument (which, in addition to being offensive, is plug-ugly.) The AG is asking for the city to be fined $25,000 a day while the cover remains up. The city points out that they are protecting it, not altering or removing it, actions which the law bans without permission of a related state committee.
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