‘Anarchists illegally took them down,’ and now Portland is putting statues of Lincoln and Roosevelt back up

Abraham Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt statues will be reinstated in Portland’s South Park Blocks after a public engagement process determined the landmarks should return.

The monuments, toppled five years ago this month during the “Indigenous Peoples Day of Rage” protests, will return following a series of public sessions where attendees expressed differing reasons for bringing them back…

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