Historic statue removal: Quick Facts

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Bronze figures of Confederate soldiers lie strapped on a flatbed truck as workers dismantle a monument near the University of Louisville campus, with construction equipment in the background.

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A small child walks in front of a vandalized monument base where a statue of Robert E. Lee and Thomas Stonewall Jackson once stood, with Black Lives Matter graffiti visible.

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