PHOTOS: Supporters, critics argue at site of former Confederate monument in Lexington
The Confederate monument that has stood in downtown Lexington for 115 years is gone as of Friday morning. On Wednesday, county leaders announced that the United Daughters of the Confederacy reached an agreement with the City of Lexington to remove the statue from uptown.
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A woman yells at a group of people who were celebrating the removal of the Confederate monument from downtown Lexington on Friday, Oct. 15, 2020 in Lexington, N.C.
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A woman yells at LaQuisha Johnson, foreground, an activist who has been protesting against the Confederate monument in downtown Lexington for months, after the monument was removed.
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A woman yells at a police officer with the Lexington Police Department after he told her to stop using racist language at the site of a recently removed Confederate monument.
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LaQuisha Johnson, an activist who has been protesting against the Confederate monument in downtown Lexington for months, responds to a woman who was upset by the removal of the monument.
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Two groups of people yell at one another at the site of a recently removed Confederate monument in Lexington.
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Flowers lie on a pedestal that held a Confederate monument in Lexington, N.C. for 115 years before it was removed late on Thursday evening.
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A group of people celebrating the removal of a Confederate Monument respond to a woman upset with the removal of the statue.
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A woman stands near the site of a recently removed Confederate monument in Lexington, N.C. on Friday, Oct. 16, 2020.
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A police officer with the Lexington Police Department stands at the former site of a Confederate monument after deescalating an argument between supporters and critics of the move.
After 141 days of protesting, LaQuisha Johnson watched as workers dismantled the Confederate statue in Lexington and removed it from the squar…