Hurricane Laura damages Lake Charles confederate monument

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Hurricane Laura damaged a Lake Charles Confederate monument, after parish officials voted to keep it

Hurricane Laura damaged the controversial Confederate monument in Lake Charles, Louisiana after officials voted to keep the statue earlier this month.

The Calcasieu Parish Police Jury voted 10-4 Aug. 13 to let the South's Defenders Monument remain on the grounds of a courthouse in Lake Charles.

A Calcasieu Parish official said they had received 945 written responses from the public during this period.

"Of the total responses, 878 were against relocating the monument and 67 were for relocating the monument," Calcasieu Parish Administrator Bryan Beam said.

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Twitter posts Thursday morning showed images of the monument with the general in pieces on the ground.

Dedicated in 1915, the monument honors Confederate soldiers from the area and other towns across the South. Parish officials had been taking public comments since late June about what to do with the statue amid calls around the country to remove Confederate monuments many see as symbols of racism.

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TooShiftyForYou on August 27th, 2020 at 16:48 UTC »

Just two weeks after officials voted to not remove a controversial Confederate monument in Louisiana, Hurricane Laura did just that.

Quickly crumbling and falling apart, a true representation of the Confederacy.

Sweet_Roll_Thieves on August 27th, 2020 at 16:26 UTC »

Remember when those televangelists all spout out that these major hurricanes are because God's punishing us for (insert random ridiculous topic)? I wonder what they have to say about that now?

"Well, uh, God seems to.....uh......well shit......maybe one of them builders of that there monument were practitioners of Sodomy!"

XLauncher on August 27th, 2020 at 16:07 UTC »

God: Fine. I'll do it myself.