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New Capsule Installed Within Pedestal Where Lee Statue Stood | Political News

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September 11, 2021
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RICHMOND,, Va. (AP) — Staff on the website in Virginia‘s capital the place a statue of Accomplice Gen. Robert E. Lee was taken down this week put in a brand new time capsule Saturday throughout the statue’s large pedestal, after efforts to find an 1887 capsule had been suspended.

The capsule’s set up, which a state authorities official confirmed was accomplished Saturday morning, incorporates remembrances of present occasions, together with these associated to COVID-19 and protests over racial injustice.

It was demonstrations final 12 months over racism and police brutality nationwide — together with in Richmond — following the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis that led Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam to order the elimination of the big Lee statue. The statue was taken down Wednesday, virtually every week after the Virginia Supreme Courtroom cleared the way in which with a choice involving litigation that had blocked the elimination.

Crews had spent a lot of Thursday finding with out success the late-Nineteenth century capsule that state officers consider was buried throughout the pedestal, eradicating large stones. The search did not proceed. The reassembly of the pedestal was accomplished by Saturday afternoon, in keeping with Dena Potter, a spokeswoman for the state company managing the job.

The Lee statue was certainly one of 5 Accomplice tributes alongside Richmond’s Monument Avenue and the one one which belonged to the state. The 4 city-owned statues had been taken down final summer season. State officers plan to go away the Lee pedestal in place, at the least for now, with the expectation {that a} community-involved rethinking of Monument Avenue will kick off quickly.

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The brand new capsule contained objects resembling an expired vial of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine, a Black Lives Matter sticker and {a photograph} of a Black ballerina together with her fist raised close to the Lee statue throughout final summer season’s protests in Richmond.

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