On Monday, the National Park Service made an announcement regarding the future of a Confederate statue that was knocked over during the Black Lives Matter riots of 2020.
The statue, featuring Brigadier General Albert Pike, had previously stood outside the Metropolitan Police Department Headquarters in Washington D.C., and was the only statue of a Confederate leader in the nation’s capital. But following the death of George Floyd and the subsequent protests and riots that plagued American cities, Pike’s likeness was removed using ropes. The demonstrators then poured accelerant on the statue and lit it on fire.
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JUST IN: The National Park Service announced it will restore and reinstall the bronze statue of Albert Pike, which was TORN DOWN and vandalized during the 2020 BLM riots
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— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) August 5, 2025
Now, over five years after that night, the National Park Service (NPS) has announced that they are working to restore and reinstall Pike’s bronze statue. President Donald Trump had originally called for its repair and replacement during his first term, but the monument was placed in storage, where it has been held ever since.
“Site preparation to repair the statue’s damaged masonry plinth will begin shortly, with crews repairing broken stone, mortar joints and mounting elements,’ the NPS said.
The move reportedly complies with executive orders signed by Trump to restore “truth and sanity to American history,” and to beautify Washington D.C.
“Under the order, Trump directed Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum to determine whether statues have been removed since the Black Lives Matter protests of 2020 to ‘perpetuate a false reconstruction of American history, inappropriately minimize the value of certain historical events or figures, or include any other improper partisan ideology,'” the Daily Mail reported.
“The Pike statue has long been a source of contention in Washington DC,” the outlet added. “It was originally dedicated in 1901 at the behest of the Freemasons, who successfully lobbied Congress to grant them land for the statue they said would honor Pike’s 32 years as Sovereign Grand Commander of the Ancient Rite of Scottish Freemasonry.”
X users reacted to the news:
Omg. This is awesome. I hope other statues will also be restored and replaced.
— Juanita Broaddrick (@atensnut) August 5, 2025
Good. That was a travesty, as were the others.
— Michael Etheridge (@806Engineer) August 5, 2025
Good. If we forget history, we are doomed to repeat it. The fact that it took until now to put it back up is shameful. You don’t get to rewrite history because the MSM cheered it on.
— The Undercurrent (@NotTheirScript) August 5, 2025
Time to put back up all the other statues that got taken down then too!!
— Freshly Brewed Politics (@BrewedPolitics) August 5, 2025
Good. While there restoring actual history statutes they can remove all the statutes of George Floyd and these other nameless statutes that’s been recently installed.
— Benjamin Kimbrell (@BenKimbrell64) August 5, 2025
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Sierra Marlee is a millennial whose hunger for the truth in a world of fake news has led her to write. Marlee also contributes to BizPac Review.
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