A statue of a general for the pro-slavery Confederacy during the Civil War has been reinstalled in the US capital after being toppled during racial justice protests in 2020.

The National Park Service (NPS) had announced plans in August to return the statue of General Albert Pike to the downtown park where it once stood.

The statue, which honors Pike’s contributions to freemasonry, was the only memorial to a Confederate general in the US capital before it was torn down.

It was restored to its pedestal by the NPS over the weekend.

Statues honoring the Confederacy were a prime target during protests that broke out nationwide in June 2020 following the death of George Floyd, a 46-year-old Black man who was murdered by a white police officer in Minneapolis.

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