IN RICHMOND, where good manners have always been a must, officials and residents hope the long-simmering debate over the city's Confederate statuary avoids the incivility seen elsewhere, including in nearby Charlottesville.
There, on July 9th, about 50 members of the Ku Klux Klan marched in opposition to Charlottesville's plan to take down a verdigris statue of Robert E. Lee astride his war horse that has stood in a city park for more than 90 years. Separated from more than 1,000 counter-protestors by a phalanx of city and state police, the Klansmen—many from North Carolina and some wearing the organisation's distinctive hoods and robes—gathered in Justice Park for about half an hour. As the Klansmen attempted to leave, counter-protestors tried to block them. Ignoring orders by authorities to give way, the counter-protestors were disbursed when police detonated three canisters of tear gas. It was an embarrassing finale to a day in which 23 people were arrested.
Richmond, a majority-minority city that was the...Continue reading
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