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Just one day shy of a week following a deadly white supremacist rally and counter-protest in his city, Charlottesville Mayor Mike Signer called for Confederate monuments to be removed from the city’s downtown area. Included among the Confederate monuments the mayor wants to see removed is the Robert E. Lee statue in Emancipation Park, where the controversial “Unite the Right” rally took place last Saturday.
Charlottesville Mayor Signer made the recommendation that the confederate monuments be removed on Friday, calling last week’s deadly vehicle ramming of a crowd of counter-protesters a terrorist attack. As CNN reports, the mayor added that the City of Charlottesville must deny the “Nazis and the KKK and the so-called alt-right” the “lightening rods” that the Confederate monuments have become.
The right-wing terrorist attack that took place in Charlottesville last Saturday left 19 people injured and killed 32-year-old Heather Heyer, a counter-protester marching against alt-right hate.