A large police presence as well as large cranes and heavy equipment were all part of the removal of the monument to former Confederate President Jefferson Davis early Thursday, May 11.
The City removed the first of the four monuments, The Battle of Liberty Place, on April 24, 2017. "It took a two-year review process, a City Council vote and victories over multiple legal challenges. These monuments have stood not as historical or educational markers of our legacy and segregation, but in celebration of it", the mayor added in a statement.
The Jefferson Davis Monument was one of the Monumental Task Committee's first projects 29 years ago.
Also slated for removal are statues of Confederate generals Robert E. Lee and P.G.T Beauregard. But Harley Chaz, New Orleans resident, said he doesn't have s stake in either side.
The mayor tweeted: "This morning we continue our march to reconciliation by removing the Jefferson Davis Confederate statue from its pedestal of reverence". Monument supporters say each of the statues weighs tons and they feared moving the aging icons could result in significant damage. Ingraham wrote on Twitter in a since-deleted tweet, quoting a news report that said a New Orleans memorial to Confederate President Jefferson Davis will come down this week. But he says it soon became "painfully obvious" that several of New Orleans public monuments' commemorating Reconstruction-era white uprisings and defenders of slavery had to go.
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Pensacola's Confederate monument in Lee Square was defaced in 2015, with vandals spraypainting "Confed lives don't matter" spraypainted across the granite pillar. The photographs and video of the Davis statue - previously so graven and seemingly immovable, now wrapped in a yellow strap and green plastic, dangling above a truck like a piece of bait - are mesmerizing.
WDSU reporter Jennifer Crockett said a trial date has not been set to determine ownership, but a trial would not matter if the city took the monument down before.
Multiple protesters were arrested and charged with disturbing the peace on Sunday after a fight broke out at an event held to celebrate the removal of the Liberty Place monument. A few hundred monument supporters, many waving Confederate flags, stood to voice opposition. Earlier this month, the group's chaplain urged members to write their state legislators in support of a bill that forbids removing Confederate monuments, saying a "war on Southern heritage is raging". The city said it wants to relocate them to a museum or other suitable site. It honored the Crescent City White League, which battled the racially integrated local government after the Civil War.
Street names will also have to be renamed thanks to Landrieu's plan, as the area encompassing the Robert E. Lee monument is famously known as 'Lee Circle'.
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