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Charlotte uses technicality to move Confederate monument (NC)
BY STEVE HARRISON
... The monument, erected in 1977, was vandalized on July 14 or early morning on July 15, according to police. With black spray paint, someone wrote “Racist” on the granite.
Soon after, the city moved the monument for cleaning. It has been in a warehouse ever since.
On July 24, McCrory signed the “Historic Artifact Management and Patriotism Act.”
The city’s position is that because the monument had already been taken down, it isn’t subject to the act ...
http://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/local/article46163760.html
