Dallas removes 🚫 Robert E Lee statue from city park

A statue of Confederate General Robert E Lee has been removed from a Dallas city park under police guard. The decision to take down the six-tonne statue, which has stood in Lee Park since 1936, was made in the wake of recent protests in Charlottesville that ended in violence.

The council now needs to decide what to do with the statue showing General Lee - who commanded forces of the pro-slavery Confederacy in the US Civil War of 1861-65 - and an unnamed Confederate soldier.

The Dallas memorial is the latest in a string of statues to be removed in the wake of last month's violence in Charlottesville, sparked by the decision to remove another Robert E Lee statue.

The removal of the statues, many of which were put up years after the Civil War had ended, has led to fierce debate, with some saying their removal was tantamount to erasing history.

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