Judge blocks removal of Charlottesville statues
in the death of Heather Heyer, a counter-protester run down by a white nationalist who drove his car into a crowd.
After the protests, Charlottesville’s City Council covered the monuments in black shrouds, but in February 2018, Judge Richard E. Moore ordered the shrouds removed. On September 13, Moore alsothat the preservation law applied to the Lee and Jackson statues, forcing the city to keep them indefinitely.
“In his latest ruling, Moore cited the intent of the preservation law, saying, ‘I don’t think I can infer that a historical preservation statute was intended to be racist,’ he said. ‘Certainly, [racism] was on their minds, but we should not judge the current law by that intent.
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