Protest recontextualization converted the Lee statue into a memorial to police victims

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I returned to Richmond in late August 2020, at the end of a season that fundamentally remade the city and the country. I started at the head of the drag, and the head of the Confederacy, with the Robert E. Lee statue. Black Lives Matter activists had remade the statue into a colorful shrine bearing the names of those unarmed Black men and women slain by police. Lee was still there, atop his horse. But after the protestors made their mark, it was no longer his memorial. — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 1148