Lexington mayor says Confederate statues will be moved
By KENTUCKY PRESS NEWS SERVICE | August 13, 2017 11:42 am
Lexington Mayor Jim Gray says he is taking steps to remove two Confederate-era statues from the lawn of the former Fayette County Courthouse on Main Street.
Gray’s announcement came the same day as one person was killed and multiple people were injured in Virginia, after a vehicle drove into counter-protesters who had clashed with white nationalists around a Confederate-era statue in Charlottesville, Va.
Gray said in a statement on Saturday that he would ask the Lexington-Fayette County Urban County Council at its Tuesday work session to take the first step — to ask a state military commission for permission to take down the statues of John Hunt Morgan and John C. Breckinridge. Gray said the vote was already in the works.
“We have thoroughly examined this issue, and heard from many of our citizens,” Gray said in a statement Saturday. “The tragic events in Charlottesville today have accelerated the announcement I intended to make next week” ...
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