Charlottesville to remove statue of Robert E Lee at centre of fatal clashes at 2017 neo-Nazi rally

There’s no word yet on what will replace the statue

A statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee is seen in Market Street Park on April 1, 2021 in Charlottesville, Virginia. (Getty Images)

The city of Charlottesville, Virginia, plans to take down a statue of Confederate general Robert E. Lee this weekend, a long-controversial monument that became the center of the infamous 2017 “Unite the Right” neo-Nazi rally. At the rally, far-right groups massed with torches and chanted “Jews will not replace us!,” and a white supremacist fatally rammed his car into a group of anti-racist counterprotestors, killing Heather Heyer and injuring numerous others.