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The Christopher Columbus statue that stood outside Columbus City Hall for more than 60 years stands no more.
Crews worked early Wednesday morning to remove the statue that was a gift from the city of Genoa, Italy in 1955. The statue was loaded onto a trailer and driven out of downtown around 7:20 a.m. to an undisclosed location.
Columbus Mayor Andrew Ginther vowed to remove the statue during recent protests over racial inequality that followed the Minneapolis police killing of George Floyd. Ginther says the statue will be replaced with something more representative of the people of Columbus.
Another statue of the Italian explorer, who’s accused of atrocities against Indigenous people, was recently removed from the Columbus State Community College campus, while another Columbus statue on the Ohio Statehouse grounds still stands.
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