WASHINGTON, Aug 4 (Reuters) - A statue of Confederate General Albert Pike, which was overturned in 2020 during the “Black Lives Matter” protests after George Floyd’s murder, will be reinstalled in Washington, the National Park Service said on Monday.
“The National Park Service announced today that it will restore and reinstall the bronze statue of Albert Pike, which was toppled and vandalized during riots in June 2020,” it said in a statement.
The statement added the National Park Service targeted completing the statue’s re-installment by October.
The U.S. saw nationwide protests in 2020 following the killing of Floyd, a Black man who died after a white police officer knelt on his neck for over eight minutes.
The National Park Service said reinstalling the statue was in line with recent executive orders signed by President Donald Trump, who has been a strident critic of renaming or removing Confederate statues and monuments.
