The simplest way to protect people in Richmond from being hurt when removing monuments would be to help people remove the monuments that City Council already voted to remove. https://www.richmond.com/news/local/its-unanimous-all-nine-richmond-city-council-members-back-removal-of-confederate-monuments-on-monument/article_a639a9e9-6757-5278-8da5-bf498241afb9.html

Farmville voted to remove a monument at 7:00pm on June 18th. They had a crane out removing the monument at 7:30pm. In Richmond, we get Kim Gray talking about the need for a "thoughtful and deliberative process" with no time line on removal. https://www.farmvilleherald.com/2020/06/confederate-statue-removed-after-farmville-town-council-approval/

This statement, as Richmond and Virginia spends who even knows how much money every night protecting these monuments with armies of RPD and VSP officers, is beyond disingenuous.

I appreciate that @thedrmikejones and @Stephanie4RVA are calling for the immediate removal of the monuments that Richmond has control over. https://twitter.com/Stephanie4RVA/status/1274917364933500928

We need to get to important discussions as a City about moving money and power out of institutions that hold down our Black communities and putting that money into empowering those communities. These monuments are a lightning rod for hatred and a distraction and they need to go.

It's simple: we don't want monuments to white supremacy in our city. The fact that this process is taking so long is ridiculous, and it puts people in danger in multiple ways. Remove them and let's solve more problems.