City workers in Charlottesville, Va., covered a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee in a black shroud Wednesday in mourning for the woman killed during a white nationalist rally earlier this month.
A video showed the workers in Emancipation Park using rope to lower the tarp over Lee’s statue as some onlookers cheered.
Charlottesville’s city council voted Tuesday to cover the Lee statue and one of Confederate Gen. Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson at another park in honor of Heather Heyer.
The 32-year-old was killed Aug. 12 as she protested the gathering of white supremacists when a neo-Nazi sympathizer drove his car into a crowd on a downtown street.
James Alex Fields Jr., of Ohio, has been charged in her death.
The hate groups were in town as part of a “Unite the Right” rally in part to protest the removal of the Lee statue from the park.
Two Virginia State Police officers were also killed when their helicopter crashed as they were monitoring the rally.
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