Richmond's monuments still sitting at wastewater plant 5 years later

A half-decade after Richmond’s Confederate monuments fell, Del. Mike Jones, D-Richmond, said he would gladly trade their return for functional civilian oversight of Richmond police — and other signs of what he called “real progress.”

“As abhorrent as they are, give me life, give me real justice. You can keep your monuments,” said Jones, who was Richmond’s 9th District city councilman from 2017 until 2024. “S--t didn’t change when they came down.” State

Search finds 742 bodies under Confederate marker in Richmond

SAMUEL B. PARKER Richmond Times-Dispatch

It’s been five years since Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin murdered George Floyd, kneeling on the Black man's neck for more than nine minutes even as he pleaded for relief. Video footage of the killing sparked worldwide unre