Judge reverses earlier decision and allows removal of Confederate memorial at Arlington Cemetery
At a hearing in federal court in Alexandria, Virginia, U.S. District Judge Rossie Alston said he issued the temporary injunction Monday after receiving an urgent phone call from the memorial’s supporters saying that gravesites adjacent to the memorial were being desecrated as contractors began work to remove the memorial.
He said he toured the site before Tuesday’s hearing and saw the site being treated respectfully.
“I saw no desecration of any graves,” Alston said. “The grass wasn’t even disturbed.”
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In a statement Tuesday evening, the cemetery said it “will resume the
deliberate process of removing the Confederate Memorial from Arlington
National Cemetery immediately. While the work is performed, surrounding
graves, headstones and the landscape will be carefully protected.”
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