Officials of a central Florida county voted on Tuesday to rescind a decision last year to give a new home to a Confederate statue being removed from a gallery in the U.S. Capitol, saying the reversal would 'bring the community together.'
The Lake County Commissioners prepare to start their meeting where they would vote on relocating the Confederate General Edmund Kirby Smith statue from United States Capitol in Washington D.C. to Tavares, Florida, U.S. July 7, 2020. REUTERS/Octavio Jones
Lake County is the site of the notorious “Groveland Four” convictions of a group of Black men wrongfully accused of raping a white woman in 1949, considered by many as a glaring example of racial injustice. The office of Governor Ron DeSantis, who signed a pardon for the Groveland Four last year, had no immediate comment on the fate of the Smith statue.
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