Posted on 02/28/2018 12:08:34 PM PST by 11th_VA
The city put up the sheeting in the days after a deadly far-right rally last August which left a counter-protester and two police officers dead.
The city had argued the "shrouds" were meant to honour those killed and injured, but the judge found they interfered with park tourism.
The judge also allowed a lawsuit to preserve the statues to move forward.
Judge Richard Moore ruled on Tuesday that the black plastic sheeting over the monuments to Robert E Lee and Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson must be removed in the next 15 days.
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Sanity returns.
Wasn’t the organizer of the “Unite the Right” group (which had never been heard of before) a former leftist activist who was suddenly pretending to be a right-winger? What has happened to him? Is he just laying low?
Yes he was, the whole thing was staged astroturf.
We have heard nothing about any of the participants since, not even the driver.
No reason for surveilling in the air; could have done that on the ground.
The difference between men and boys is the price of their toys. You should see my library.
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