WASHINGTON—A statue of a Confederate general toppled during the 2020 riots over the death of George Floyd will be reinstalled at Washington’s Judiciary Square, the National Park Service announced on Aug 5.
A statue of Albert Pike—a brigadier general in the Confederate States Army during the Civil War, who died in 1891—was forcibly removed and vandalized in June 2020 during protests against the death of George Floyd, who died during an arrest by the Minneapolis Police Department that year. The statue was the only outdoor monument to a Confederate leader in Washington.
