The city of Philadelphia has removed the plywood box that had been placed over a statue of Christopher Columbus, after a judge ruled against the mayor's wishes for the monument to be taken away after 2020 protests over racial injustice. In her ruling, Judge Mary Hannah Leavitt said that if the city disagrees with the 'message' the statue sends, it can add its own plaque with what it wants to convey.'More to the point, the City accepted the donation of the Columbus statue in 1876. It has a fiduciary duty to preserve that statue, which it designated an historic object in 2017. The Columbus statue is not City property as is, for example, a City snowblower,' the judge wrote.
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