Ever since Floyd Riots traveled the monuments 5 years ago, the leaders of the capital of the Confederate capital of the lament of the lament “did not change”

Fragments of Civil War monuments are still in a lot next to Intersate 95, near the Richmond Waste Water Treatment plant, only a launch of the iconic “Cigarette Marlboro” in South Richmond, the capital of the Confederation.

While Richmond’s tobacco trade past is symbolized by that strange on the road on the Philip Morris plant, II Other South cities took quick measures to erase the reminders of the Civil War and slavery.

A Thursday report on Richmond Times’s departure looked at what happened, or Moreso no, happened like those who had sought the fact that the monuments had been waiting for the heat of George Floyd’s riots five years ago this week.

Virginia State of. Mike Jones, D-Richmond, a monument-reported opposition, said in the document that “St did not change when they went down”, and that “real progress” was what was sought to erase the pro-Esclavitude past and southern secessionist.

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“As abominated as [they] They are, give me life, give me justice. You can keep your monuments. “Jones said to the paper.

A statue found a new house, as Davis is displayed at the Valentine Museum in the city. He still has paint marks since when he was besieged by protesters in 2020.

Jones told the document that violence against weapons and issues related to education are still minor communities and also punched President Donald Trump in terms of lack of change from Floyd’s riots and monumental disorder.

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“We really didn’t get the monuments because the spirit of [them] It’s in the White House right now, “he told The Times-Dispatch.

While protesters have been overcome by protesters or municipalities throughout the south, Richmond, as expected due to their past, as CSA capital, had many in prominent places.

Monument Fold Avenue of the city tree was reduced to a series of traffic circles around non -marble granite pedestals after the removal of gene effigns. Robert E. Lee, James Ewell Brown “Jeb” Stuart, President Jefferson Davis and Naval officer talked about by local scientists Matthew Maury.

Then-GOV. Ralph Northam’s efforts to eliminate the last of the monuments, Lee’s, were briefly blocked by a court, as it was originally built through private donations and the help of the Democratic Governor Fitzhugh Lee; General’s nephew.

While the efforts to rename Robert E. Lee Bridge in the US 301, the main pre-i-95 crossing of the James-have-stopped river, the signaling that was greeted by travelers linked to Petersburg is now silenced.

Fox News Digital contacted Governor Levar Stoney, who, as Richmond’s mayor, directed the effort to eliminate monuments, to comment on reports that the elimination has led to a significant change.

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During his mayor, Stoney said in a video statement that protesters sought to demolish the monuments themselves while the crowning was rage, and in response to “serious illness, injury or death”.

“It’s past time, like the capital of Virginia, we have to make this page for decades,” said Stoney, adding the city and “color residents” had been “loaded” for their historical role as CSA capital.

Fox News Digital also contacted Governor Glenn Youngkin, as well as Republicans in the Richmond area, for their response to current feelings, but did not hear it in the press.

A Republican legislator told Fox News Digital that the situation shows that the focus should have been, and should be directly addressing the crimes and pressing problems such as the city’s water shortage crisis, which was re -published this week after Richmond and even the state capitol were detained on their clues due to a fault -failed failure in the beginning of the utility in the beginning of this utility in the beginning of the beginning. Year.