Democratic lawmakers pushed bills to remove both, with one comparing the bust of Nathan Bedford Forrest in the State Capitol to a bust of Hitler.
Republican lawmakers in Tennessee resisted a push from protesters and their Democratic colleagues to eliminate a holiday for Confederate general and KKK Founder Nathan Bedford Forrest and remove a bust of him from the State Capitol, which one black lawmaker compared to a bust of Hitler.... [+]
building on June 04, 2020 in Nashville, Tennessee. Minneapolis Police officer Derek Chauvin was filmed kneeling on George Floyd's neck. Floyd was later pronounced dead at a local hospital. Across the country, Floyd's death has set off days and nights of protests as its the most recent in a series of deaths of African Americans by the police.
, or planned removal, of statues and other memorials commemorating Confederate figures in several states.in front of the Tennessee State Capitol on Wednesday calling for the removal of a bust of Forrest in the Capitol after a state House committee voted down a measure that would’ve done just that.a resolution, introduced in January, to remove the statue on Tuesday, with every Democrat on the committee voting to remove it and all but one Republican voting for it to remain.
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