By The FirstA Pennsylvania court delivered a blow to the City of Philadelphia’s efforts to cancel Christopher Columbus, upholding a previous ruling that the city is legally required to remove a plywood box that has concealed the statue of the famed Italian explorer in South Philadelphia’s Marconi Plaza for 2½ years.
The Philadelphia Inquirer reports:
With the aid of a cherry picker and several spotlights, workers disassembled the box around 9:30 p.m. to the jubilation of passing motorists on Broad Street who honked car horns and whistled. Some stopped to take pictures of the exposed statue.
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On Friday, Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court ruled the statue must be freed from the box. The court’s decision also upheld a previous ruling saying the city didn’t follow the legally required process to remove the statue. The city has not decided whether to appeal.
The statue of the explorer was initially covered up in June of 2020 during the George Floyd riots. In August of 2020, the Philadelphia Art Commission issued an order to remove the monument and to place it in temporary storage, but a judge later halted the order, while a legal battle continues in the courts.
The statue of Columbus in Philadelphia’s Marconi Plaza was originally erected and dedicated in 1876 as a gift from Italy to America.
The First TV’s Bill O’Reilly blasts the woke mob’s efforts in Philly to tear-down the famous statue of Italian explorer Christopher Columbus in Marconi Plaza.
