(Reuters) - New Orleans on Monday removed a statue that the mayor said glorified a 19th-century attack on police by white supremacists, the first of four monuments that the city will Pedestrians pass the former site of the John McDonogh monument in Lafayette Square in New Orleans on Friday, Jan. 14, 2022. A year and a half after protesters removed the statue of McDonogh from First of four monuments honoring Confederate history removed in New Orleans. The city is removing the statues despite security threats One of the statues removed was of Gen. P.G.T Beauregard, who ordered the first shots fired in the Civil War, another was a bronze figure of Confederate hero Gen. Robert E. Lee that stood for The Latest: Last Confederate monument removed in New Orleans ___. New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu has declared that the Confederacy was "on the wrong side of humanity" as he ___. Workers backed by a crane have tied ropes around a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee, which has perched The statue of Robert E. Lee is separated from its column Friday, May 19, 2017. It was the final of four post-Civil War monuments in New Orleans that Mayor Mitch Landrieu removed. (Photo by olqnSa.

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