Hurricane Laura brings down Confederate monument a southern town recently voted to keep in place – By Brian Niemietz (New York Daily News) / Aug 27 2020
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Hurricane Laura appears to have torn down a Confederate monument that a southern town recently voted to keep up. The deadly Category 4 storm blew into Lake Charles, Louisiana, overnight, where wind speeds reportedly reached 150 mph.
According to the Daily Advertiser, one casualty of the cyclone is a 115-year-old South’s Defenders Monument that overlooked one of the devastated town’s courthouses.
Only two weeks ago, city leaders voted 10-4 to keep the monument in place after 878 of the 945 Lake Charles residents who corresponded with city officials over the summer also agreed it should stay. Roughly 78,000 people call the southwest Louisiana town home.
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