A towering statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee, the last Confederate statue remaining along Richmond’s historic Monument Avenue, was removed this morning.
Two crucial rulings from the Virginia Supreme Court last week made it possible to finally get the controversial statue removed from the area that once served as the Confederacy’s capital.
As the statue came down shortly before 9:00 a.m., protesters at the site chanted “Black Lives Matter” and sang Steam’s classic “Na, Na, Na, Na, Hey, hey, hey, goodbye.”
NOW: Crowd chanting “hey hey hey, goodbye” as officials remove the Robert E. Lee Monument in Virginia —
the country’s largest Confederate statue pic.twitter.com/PFswiZCwXM— philip lewis (@Phil_Lewis_) September 8, 2021
