City officials and crews watch as the Confederate statue of Ambrose Powell “A.P.” Hill is removed, and workers search for his remains. After the death of George Floyd, protesters in Richmond took to the streets. As they called for justice and reform, they also demanded that the city’s Confederate statues be removed. As protesters painted messages on the statues and tried to topple some of the city’s smaller statues, Mayor Levar Stoney utilized his emergency powers to remove Confederate statues from around the city including those on nearby Monument Avenue. The avenue is lined with large affluent homes and until recently, it was punctuated with massive Confederate statues. In 2020 the first statues on Monument Avenue began to come down. The A.P. Hill statue and pedestal would not be removed and dismantled for another two years. The body of Hill was buried beneath the statue. Because the area under the statue was also a burial site, the issue of moving Hill’s body delayed the statue’s removal.