The General Custer Statue in Monroe: Take It Down or Move It? This was a question that was raised in the summer of 2020. There was a petition pushing to remove the statue of General George Armstrong Custer that stands in downtown Monroe, Michigan. With the ripping down of so many other statues of historic American figures, it's no surprise about Custer's. Last summer, the petition – started by a member of one of the tribes that fought Custer at Little Big Horn - garnered around 14,000 signatures. According to michiganradio.org, it's part of a campaign to stop honoring people who were responsible for “the removal of Native people from their ancestral lands”.