Charlottesville City Council Votes To Cover Statues Of Robert E. Lee And Stonewall Jackson

CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA - AUGUST 22: Richard Layne, an Iraq and Afghanistan veteran, pauses for a moment while touching the base of the Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee statue that stands in the center of the renamed Emancipation Park on August 22, 2017 in Charlottesville, Virginia. A decision to remove the statue caused a violent protest by white nationalists, neo-Nazis, the Ku Klux Klan and members of the 'alt-right'. (Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images)