From the August 23, 2017, Dubuque (Iowa) Telegraph Herald by AP.
The Charlottesville City Council voted to drape two Confederate statues in black fabric during a chaotic meeting packed with irate residents who screamed and cursed at the council members over the city's response to the white nationalist rally. This anger resulted in three arrests
A photograph accompanying the article showed both Blacks and Whites yelling and doing the Black Power salute. They were looking every bit as hateful as the white nationalist had been.
The white nationalist rally was organized in part to protest the city's decision to remove the statue of Robert E. Lee.
The removal is in the midst of a legal challenge because a 1998 state law forbids local governments from removing, damaging or defacing war monuments. The city contends that this does no apply to the Lee statue because it was put up before 1998.
A judge has issued an injunction that keeps the city from removing it while the lawsuit plays out. Until then, the shroud will stay in place as the city's mourning for the woman killed.
The other statue is of Stonewall Jackson.
In the meantime, Charlottesville is looking to break the law, good law-abiding citizens as they are. But, under the circumstances of what happened, I would have to agree that the statue should be removed to some other place.
I Was Wondering Why the Statue Was Still There. --Old Secesh
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