Descendants of Nathan Bedford Forrest filed a lawsuit against the City of Memphis, Memphis City Council and Memphis Greenspace Inc.
The
group filing the suit includes five great-great grandsons of Forrest.
They claim the cit council members and mayor conspired to desecrate the
graves of Forrest and his wife Mary Ann Forrest and said the removal of
the monument was illegal.
The bodies of the Forrests remain at Health Sciences Park with the statues removed.
The
statues were removed in December 2017 after the city sold Health
Sciences Park and Memphis Park (where they later removed a statue of
Jefferson Davis) to Memphis Greenspace for $1,000.
The city retains that the sale and removal of the statues was perfectly legal and privately funded.
The Forrest family said the removal is in violation of the Tennessee Heritage Protection Act.
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The city even sold the land to private investors for $2,000,
ReplyDeleteworth over a million. The monument is regarded as one of the three best equestrian statues in the United States and valued at more than $6 million. Vigilante law. How does one fight for lawful reinstatement when the damn judges are the lawless ones. Drag the judges off their pedestals and hang from the nearest
tree. Sway, baby, sway.
Sway, baby, sway.
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