Edited sentence: Acquiescing to the demands of the demonstrators Stoney and Governor Northam began the process of their removal, despite Virginians overwhelmingly wanting to keep them.After the protesting and riots for George Floyd, Stoney's administration left the monuments vandalized or destroyed (such as the statue of Christopher Columbus erected by Richmond's Italian American community).Following Charlottesville's removal and donation to an African American museum, where plans were to melt down the monument, Stoney decided to donate the Confederate statues to Richmond's African American museum.The fate of these monuments were decided only days before Republican Glenn Youngkin assumed the office of Governor of Virginia.The only statue left on Monument Avenue is of the African American tennis player Arthur Ashe