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7:05 PM on Jun 22, 2020 CDTWorkers began dismantling a Confederate memorial in downtown Dallas’ Pioneer Park cemetery on Monday, a year and four months after the City Council .The centerpiece of the structure, a 65-foot obelisk that has stood in the cemetery near City Hall since 1961, remains untouched. But three of the four statues surrounding it — of Confederate President Jefferson Davis and Gens. Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson and Albert Sidney Johnston — have been disassembled and packed, city spokeswoman Roxana Rubio said.The pieces were being taken to Hensley Field after the state’s 5th District Court of Appeals in Dallas granted permission to remove the monument “for archival storage.”The removal had been halted for almost a year because of a lawsuit fighting the dismantling, but that the city could go ahead while the case is resolved because of fears that protesters might topple the monument and “seriously injure anyone nearby.”Statues of Confederate leaders had been torn down across the country since George Floyd’s death in police custody in Minneapolis sparked demonstrations against racism and police brutality. In Portsmouth, Va., a man was knocked unconscious after a downed monument hit him on the head.Disassembling the obelisk is expected to begin at the end of next week or the start of the week after that, but Rubio said the timetable could change. The schedule for complete removal and transportation remains about two months, with an estimated cost of $396,000.The monument is one of the city’s last remaining public tributes to the Confederacy.In 2017, the City Council approved from along Turtle Creek. The statue was sold at auction for $1.4 million, and the park where it sat was renamed from Lee Park to Oak Lawn Park — its name before the statue was installed in 1936. The monument to Lee is now .The City Council voted in February 2019 to take down the Pioneer Park memorial, but a lawsuit filed by a group led by former council candidate Warren Johnson prevented the removal.Warren Norred, the Arlington-based attorney representing the group, Return to Lee Park, could not be reached for comment Monday.Updated at 11 a.m. July 1: The article originally said Hensley Field is in Grand Prairie. It is in the Mountain Creek area of Dallas, near the border with Grand Prairie.Get email alerts on breaking news stories as soon as they happen.By signing up you agree to our

7:05 PM on Jun 22, 2020 CDTWorkers began dismantling a Confederate memorial in downtown Dallas’ Pioneer Park cemetery on Monday, a year and four months after the City Council .The centerpiece of the structure, a 65-foot obelisk that has stood in the cemetery near City Hall since 1961, remains untouched. But three of the four statues surrounding it — of Confederate President Jefferson Davis and Gens. Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson and Albert Sidney Johnston — have been disassembled and packed, city spokeswoman Roxana Rubio said.The pieces were being taken to Hensley Field after the state’s...

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