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https://www.foxnews.com/media/floyd-attorney-crump-confederate-monuments

The attorney for George Floyd's family says he's not so sure that rushing
to remove Confederate 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 to figure out how to honor people who have done things
that are beneficial to society, and if they did things that were not
beneficial to society, that we can examine in the lens of having a broad
view of what we believe as Americans represents the best attributes of our national identity, then we should look at that," Crump told Fox News host
Neil Cavuto on Saturday.

"Whether it should be a situation where, if we keep statues up like that,
we tell the history of that individual so people will know the whole
story," he added.

"I'm not sure pulling the statues down is the right thing if we now don't
get the lessons to understand how we can learn from those things, so we
don't repeat those 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 MUSEUMS

Crump, 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 pressing his knee on the
back of Floyd's neck despite his pleas that he couldn't 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 Crump's 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 injustices. In an apparent effort to prevent
that, HBO has said it will resume streaming "Gone with the Wind," but only after including relevant context.

Former Defense Secretary Robert Gates has suggested that Confederate
monuments should be placed in museums rather than being displayed "in
places where it appears that we're celebrating them."

During the Fox interview, Crump also commented on the Rayshard Brooks
case, which involved another black man's deadly encounter with police,
this time in Atlanta.

"These are very contentious times when it comes to the whole issue of
police use of force," the Houston lawyer said.. I think ... we should all
try to make sure that we examine all the attendant circumstances.

"I hope that's what the district attorney did, because I've always
advocated that we have to have due process of the law for everybody and
that we want to have the fair administration of justice for all involved,
and what I have found is that normally, the police are going to be given
every benefit of the doubt, every benefit of consideration."

Crump added: "The thing that I have found is that citizens of color are
not always given that same due process, and so I think it should be fair
for everybody. It should be fair for police officers just as much as I
believe it should be fair for citizens whether they are black people,
white people, brown people or red people.

"We have to make sure that when we quote Thomas Jefferson's words that all
are created equally that we honor those words in America by saying we want equal consideration and equal justice under the law for all Americans."



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President Trump has boosted the economy, reduced illegal immigration,
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