Floyd family attorney worries US could repeat history after removing Confederate monuments
Channel: All in One
Date: 20/06/2020

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The attorney for George Floyds familysays hes not so sure that rushing to removeConfederate monuments is the right thing to do. Ben Crump urged Americans to step back and take a "broad view" of the underlying issues. "I think we have tofigure out how to honor peoplewho have done things that arebeneficial to society, and ifthey didthings that were not beneficial to society, that wecan examine in the lens ofhaving a broad view of what webelieve as Americans representsthe best attributes of ournational identity, then weshould look at that," Crump told Fox News host Neil Cavutoon Saturday. "Whether it should be a situationwhere, if we keep statues up likethat, we tell the history ofthat individual so people willknow the whole story," headded. "Im notsure pulling the statues down isthe right thing if we now dontget the lessons to understandhow we can learn from thosethings, so we dont repeatthose mistakes of the past.  You know, they say history -- if not studied -- we will often repeat it. "FORMER DEFENSE SECRETARY GATES CALLS FOR RENAMING MILITARY BASES, MOVING CONFEDERATE STATUES TO MUSEUMSCrump, whose office is in Houston, represents several black families who have lost loved ones at the hands of white police officers. Floyd was killed on Memorial Day when a white officer kept pressinghis knee on the back of Floyds neck despite his pleas that he couldnt breathe. The officer, Derek Chauvin, has been charged with second-degree murder. Across the U. S. ,protesters have vandalized and destroyed Confederate monuments, as well as figures of others with no ties to the Confederacy, such as George Washington. The night before Crumps comments,protesters toppled a statue of senior Confederate officer Albert Pike in Washington, D. C. . His remarks touched on widespread concerns that removing objectionable material from the public square could effectively leave Americans unprepared to fight future