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Work to relocate Richmond’s final city-owned Confederate monument should start this week after a judge refused a request to delay the removal of the statue of Gen. A.P. Hill from its prominent spot in Virginia’s capital.
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Richmond Circuit Court Judge David Eugene Cheek Sr. last week rejected a motion from four indirect descendants of Hill, who was killed in the final days of the Civil War, to stop the city’s removal plans.
Though the process of removing the monument from a busy intersection should start Monday, it’s unclear if it would be removed entirely by the end of the week.
The city began removing its many other Confederate monuments more than two years ago amid the racial justice protests that followed George Floyd’s murder.
