WASHINGTON (NEXSTAR) - The National Park Service announced it will restore and put back on display a statue of Confederate General Albert Pike in Washington, D.C.

Demonstrators took down that statue during protests in 2020 that followed the death of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police.

In a press release, the Park Service said it's restoring the statue to comply with President Donald Trump's executive orders calling for the restoration of truth and sanity to American history and to make the District of Columbia safe and beautiful.

Pike was a Confederate brigadier general and a senior leader of the Freemasons. His was the only statue of a Confederate leader in Washington, D.C.

"I've long believed Confederate statues should be placed in museums as historical artifacts, not re

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