A-SB Little Rock Mayor Promises to Defy State Law on Confederate Monument During Testimony (AR)
anti-Southern Bigot Little Rock mayor testifies in trial over city removing Confederate monument from MacArthur museum
This is why Arkansas Needs to explore term limits for city officials as well as state. Mayor Scott along with his disgraced (now former) police chief Humphreys did their best to run LR as a dictatorship during COVID and the BLM travesty. This monument, though protected by state law was one of the casualties.
Expect the usual shenanigans to proceed in the Dem held ‘Rock’ - DD
During a bench trial over the city of Little Rock's removal of a Confederate monument at MacArthur Park, Mayor Frank Scott Jr. said that Little Rock, a "Civil Rights city," removed the statue for public safety reasons and because it did not endorse the message of the Confederacy.
When questioned, Scott said that HE "speaks for the city of Little Rock" in taking down the monument. Scott also said it would not go back up in Little Rock, saying it can be put up anywhere outside the city.
Scott was one of the witnesses called during the bench trial before Pulaski County Circuit Judge Patricia James. The case was brought by Joey McCutchen, a Fort Smith attorney, on behalf of James "Jay" Frank Clark III, a Little Rock resident. McCutchen has experience in cases similar to these, having previously sued the city of Fort Smith in 2021 over the removal of seven flags, including the Confederate flag, from an outdoor display.
Little Rock, the named defendant, was represented by city attorneys Shawn Overton and Cameron Bowden.
The trial centered on the Confederate monument known as the "Memorial to Company A, Capital Guards." The monument, which was on the grounds of the MacArthur Museum of Arkansas Military History, featured a bronze Confederate soldier atop a pedestal and was erected in 1911 as part of a reunion of former Confederate soldiers. According to court testimony, the reunion brought over 100,000 ex-Confederate soldiers to Little Rock.
On June 15, 2020, amid nationwide racial-justice protests…