Some Confederate memorials in Virginia may soon come down after lawmakers finalized a bill that removes state protections for the memorials.
and allows towns, cities and counties to decide their fate.
Democrats in Virginia's House and Senate finalized the bill over the weekend. It gives localities the power to "remove, relocate, contextualize or cover" any memorial for war veterans, including those for the Civil War.deadly white nationalist rally in Charlottesville , which was initially organized to protest the city's plan to remove a statue of Confederate general Robert E. Lee. The protest spiraled into violence in August 2017, and a neo-Nazi rammed his car into a crowd, killing a woman.
"It’s a huge step, but it’s just one more step in a long process," Democratic state Del. Sally Hudson, who represents Charlottesville, told the . “In the short term what it means is this decision-making will go back to Charlottesville where it belongs."
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