A half-decade after Richmond’s Confederate monuments fell, Del. Mike Jones, D-Richmond, said he would gladly trade their return for functional civilian oversight of Richmond police — and other signs of what he called “real progress.”
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The remains of Confederate monuments that once stood in Richmond lay in a lot at the Richmond Wastewater Treatment Plant on Tuesday.
On Tuesday, nearly five years after some were torn down and others slowly dismantled, the remains of Confederate monuments that once stood in Richmond lay in a lot at the city's wastewater treatment plant. A truck passes by on Interstate 95 to the left.
Protesters gathered at the site of the Robert E. Lee statue on June 3, 2020.
Protesters toppled the statue of Confederate Gen. Williams Carter Wickham in Monroe Park in June 2020.
Work crews removed the Stonewall Jackson statue from Monument Avenue in Richmond on July 1, 2020.
Photos: Monument graveyard at Richmond Wastewater Treatment Plant
The remains of Confederate monuments that once stood in Richmond lay in a lot at the Richmond Wastewater Treatment Plant, Tuesday, May 20, 2025.
The remains of Confederate monuments that once stood in Richmond lay in a lot at the Richmond Wastewater Treatment Plant, Tuesday, May 20, 2025.
The remains of Confederate monuments that once stood in Richmond lay in a lot at the Richmond Wastewater Treatment Plant on Tuesday
Some of Richmond’s Confederate statues, the oldest of which were erected along Monument Avenue in 1890, were pulled down by demonstrators in the turbulent summer of 2020. They now lay in a lot at the Richmond Wastewater Treatment Plant.
An aerial view of the Richmond Wastewater Treatment Plant, Tuesday, May 20, 2025.
The remains of Confederate monuments that once stood in Richmond lay in a lot at the Richmond Wastewater Treatment Plant on Tuesday.
An aerial view of the Richmond Wastewater Treatment Plant, Tuesday, May 20, 2025.
The remains of Confederate monuments that once stood in Richmond lay in a lot at the Richmond Wastewater Treatment Plant, Tuesday, May 20, 2025.
On Tuesday, nearly five years after some were torn down and others slowly dismantled, the remains of Confederate monuments that once stood in Richmond lay in a lot at the city's wastewater treatment plant. A truck passes by on Interstate 95 to the left.
