Brunswick Confederate monument wrapped in plastic during jury selection in Arbery case

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Brunswick to Discuss Relocating Confederate Monument

BRUNSWICK, Ga. – Another Brunswick contented is making nationalist quality as assemblage enactment continues successful the proceedings of the 3 men charged with sidesplitting Ahmaud Arbery.

The Confederate monument that stands successful Hanover Square was wrapped successful integrative and has been that mode since the commencement of assemblage selection.

A Brunswick antheral wrote connected Facebook saying metropolis officials signed disconnected connected his program to wrapper the monument to support it from imaginable vandalism up of the trial. He besides said it was paid for by backstage citizens astatine nary outgo to the metropolis of Brunswick.

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The justice said Tuesday determination person not been immoderate problems portion assemblage enactment has been happening.

In November 2020, the metropolis voted to region the statue. In August of this year, a Georgia Court of Appeals denied a question to artifact the monument’s removal, but nary timeline has been acceptable for a removal date.

On Tuesday, Superior Court Judge Timothy Walmsley denied a defence question seeking to bounds signs and demonstrations outside the Glynn County Courthouse during the trial.