A Virginia battlefield is suing the city to stop an African American history museum from melting down the statue of the Confederate general.
Their lawsuit, filed in Charlottesville Circuit Court, alleges that the city violated the Freedom of Information Act, Virginia Public Procurement Act and state code in donating the Lee statue to the Jefferson School.The plaintiffs have asked a judge to issue a permanent injunction that would force the city to pay to restore and repair the Lee statue to its original state as a sculpture.
It will use the feedback collected throughout that process, Douglas said, to create guidelines for artists who could then submit their own ideas. But the museum will not be melting the statue down — at least, not yet."We are going to see how this plays out before deciding where we go next,” she said. “We feel confident that we will be able to do what we intended to do.”
When city lawmakers first voted in 2017 to take down the Confederate general from his perch at Market Street Park, a group of local residents associated with the fund sued, citing a state law passed in 1997 that prohibited localities from removing Confederate war memorials.
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