(London Guardian) Efforts to remove the statue of Robert E Lee which was at the centre of deadly far-right violence in Charlottesville, Virginia in 2017 have been blocked in court.
The Daily Progress reported that a three-day civil trial that ended on Friday included a ruling preventing the removal of statues of Lee and Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson, both Confederate generals in the American civil war of 1861-65.
In August 2017, the planned removal by the city of the Lee statue prompted a white nationalist rally and counter-protests in which a counter-protester, Heather Heyer, was killed.
