Jackson, Mississippi, votes to remove statue of President Andrew Jackson from City Hall.
Jackson, the seventh president of the United States, was a slave owner who ordered the Trail of Tears under the Indian Removal Act. Thousands of Indigenous people, expelled from their ancestral land in the Southeast, died on a treacherous journey to land to which they were forcibly relocated west of the Mississippi.
President Donald Trump has expressed admiration for Jackson, who was a populist, including during a 2017 visit to the Hermitage, Jackson's plantation near Nashville, Tennessee. Jackson owned about 150 slaves at the time of his death, according to his former plantation's website.as they tried to topple it.
Five days later, the Justice Department announced it was charging four men in federal court for attempting to take down the statue. "The United States Attorney's Office for the District of Columbia will not stand idly by and allow our national monuments to be vandalized and destroyed," Acting U.S. Attorney Michael R. Sherwin said in a statement.
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