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CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) — A statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee that was a focal point of a deadly white nationalist protest in 2017 has been melted down and will be repurposed into new ...
Eyewitness footage shows the immediate aftermath of a shooting incident in Richmond, Virginia, where a man armed with four handguns killed two people and wounded five others when he fired into a ...
The then president allegedly made the remark as protesters descended on Washington, D.C., following the murder of George Floyd on May 25, 2020, by a Minneapolis police officer. The quote was first ...
During the 2020 anti-racist police brutality protests, protesters in Richmond unofficially renamed the grassy area around Richmond's Robert E. Lee statue "Marcus-David Peters Circle". It became a regular site of protest and community gathering, with protest graffiti and messages projected in lights on the Lee statue; images of the protest art ...
During the early morning hours of June 15, a protest was held outside of the Richmond Police Headquarters against the police brutality exhibited by the RPD over the previous two weeks. Police shot protesters with non-lethal bullets and tear gas. [55] The next day, June 16, Chief William Smith of the Richmond Police resigned at the request of ...
Initially, protesters targeted monuments related to the Confederate States of America [citation needed]. As the scope of the protests broadened to include other forms of systemic racism, many statues of other controversial figures such as Christopher Columbus, [3] [4] Junípero Serra, Juan de Oñate and Kit Carson were torn down or removed ...
Protesters outside the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. (Kent Nishimura / Los Angeles Times) Rally organizers told the National Park Service that they anticipated 30,000 people would attend.
[1] [4] [7] An alert was sent out by Virginia Commonwealth University at 5:15 pm. [7] A member of the Richmond City School Board who was in attendance, said that the shooting began shortly after they were exiting the building and they had heard about 20 shots in quick succession.