“Right now there are plans to put it back, but that’s a decision that needs to be made by city council”, said Charlotte’s corporate spokesman Ken Brown.
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The monument, erected by the Confederate Memorial Association of Charlotte in 1977, is next to the old town hall and on City Hall property. It is unclear how long that will take.
Since the shooting, a Confederate flag flying on the grounds of South Carolina’s Capitol has been taken down.
While there have been numerous Confederate monuments vandalized across the South since the shooting, most monuments have been cleaned and reopened without having to be moved.
That’s despite objections by opponents who say it will protect Confederate memorials.
In the meantime, police are asking anyone with information about the vandalism to report it immediately to Crime Stoppers at 704-334-1600.
The bill was approved by a House committee Wednesday.
While the general well-being of the people living in North Carolina is circling the drain, Republican state lawmakers are worried about the fate of those very vulnerable Confederate memorials to very dead Confederate soldiers.
The vandals used cement rather than spray paint to deface the monument that’s located between the Grady Cole Center and Memorial Stadium- on property jointly owned by the city and the county.
Mecklenburg County officials told local media Wednesday that someone apparently smeared liquid cement across both sides of a monument unveiled in 1929. Workers covered the monument with black trash bags Thursday, so rain would not harden the cement further.
Also covered were parts of an engraving of the Confederate battle flag and all of an inscription that praised soldiers for upholding the ‘Anglo-Saxon civilization of the South.’.
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The vandalism comes as the nation debates the appropriateness of the Confederate battle flag and Confederate monuments.
