We’ve been covering this statue removal for over a year. The city was having a hard time finding someone to remove the statue because the last guy who was supposed to remove it had his car torched and received death threats:

Several groups also filed lawsuits to prevent the removal of the statue.  

Will it change anything to erase our history? No!

A New Orleans activist group is threatening to pull down the city’s most recognizable statue in response to what members claim are unreasonable delays in removing four other monuments honoring Confederate leaders and a 19th century white supremacist militia.

Take ‘Em Down NOLA says it will attempt to topple the statue of Andrew Jackson during a protest later this month in Jackson Square. Legal delays have kept the other statues — honoring Confederate President Jefferson Davis, Confederate generals Robert E. Lee and P.G.T. Beauregard, and a militia known as the White League — standing nine months after the City Council authorized their removal.

“We’re going to go to Jackson Square. We’re going to put ropes around Andrew Jackson and we’re going to take him down off his pedestal,” Take ‘Em Down organizer and longtime civil rights activist Malcolm Suber said during a forum the group held Thursday.

The demonstration, scheduled for Sept. 24, will come a few days before judges on the U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals are scheduled to hear arguments over whether to lift an order that halted the removal of the monuments.

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