George Floyd protests in Richmond, Virginia
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Richmond, Virginia, experienced a series of protests in the wake of the murder of George Floyd. Richmond was the first city in the Southeastern United States to see rioting following Floyd's murder. Richmond, formerly the capital of the short-lived Confederate States of America, saw much arson and vandalism to monuments connected with that polity, particularly along Monument Avenue.
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Date | May 29 ā August 16, 2020[1][2] (2 months, 2 weeks and 4 days) | ||
Location | Richmond, Virginia, United States | ||
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Injuries | At least 25 | ||
Arrested | 400ā500 |
Protests began in late May 2020 and gradually subsided by mid-August 2020. Given the city's Confederate roots, many of the areas of attack by protesters were the statues along Monument Avenue, near The Fan neighborhood of Richmond. During the first wave of Floyd protests, all major monuments (except the Arthur Ashe Monument) were defaced and sprayed with graffiti. Five statues were toppled by protesters. Some of the statues toppled included the Jefferson Davis Memorial, statues of Christopher Columbus and Confederate General Williams Carter Wickham, and the Howitzer Monument.