June 17, 2020
Late last night
protestors toppled the statue of a Confederate soldier on the campus of
Virginia Commonwealth University after attacking a residential building where
Mayor Levar Stoney resides.
The statue, known
as the Howitzer Monument, was pulled down shortly after 11:00 p.m. It was moved
to a safe location later in the morning.
About ninety
minutes earlier, a crowd of between 200 and 250 protesters gathered outside
Mayor Stoney’s residential building. They chanted about the mayor and tagged
the building with graffiti. A group of about twenty of them briefly entered the
building’s lobby before being removed by private security.
