Nearly four years after the deadly white supremacist rally in the city, the statue of the Confederate general was demolished.

On Saturday, nearly four years after the incident of white supremacy, a statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee was demolished in Charlottesville, Virginia. protest The plan to dismantle it led to conflict and a woman was killed.

Soon after the removal of the Lee statue, the statue of Confederate General Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson was also removed from his base in another city park. When the statues were loaded into a truck and drove away, the onlookers who had gathered a few hours earlier cheered.

Dozens of spectators lined up in a row in the blocks surrounding the park. When the Li statue was lifted from the pedestal, cheers rang out. There is an obvious presence of police, the streets are blocked by fences and heavy trucks, and vehicles are impassable.

As the crane approached the monument, Charlottesville Mayor Nikuyah Walker spoke in front of reporters and observers.

Walker said: “The removal of this statue is a small step closer to helping Charlottesville, Virginia and the United States overcome the criminal goal of destroying blacks for financial gain.”

In recent years, statues commemorating the leaders of the Confederate side who supported slavery in the American Civil War have become the focus of protests against racism.

The University Town’s plan to demolish the statue of Li in 2017 triggered a rally of white supremacists, when a self-proclaimed neo-Nazi drove into the crowd and killed a 32-year-old anti-protester Heather Hay Yesterday, this rally became deadly.

A few weeks later, the Charlottesville City Council unanimously ordered the removal of the Jackson statue.

Citizens, including the Virginia branch, the son of a Confederate veteran, sued Charlottesville for the demolition plan. In April, the Virginia Supreme Court ruled that the city can remove the two Confederate statues, overturning the state circuit court’s decision to uphold the citizen suit.

Officials said in a statement on Friday that Charlottesville will keep the statues until a final decision is made on what to do with them.

Charlottesville City Council member Kristin Szakos, who witnessed the removal of these statues, said, “People in this community have been trying to remove these statues for a hundred years.”

She added: “I think we are finally ready to become a community, it will not convey our view of white supremacy through our public art.”

A worker gestures while demolishing a statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee [Evelyn Hockstein/Reuters]