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ABC News Turn on desktop notifications for breaking stories about interest? OffOn At least 160 Confederate symbols were taken down or moved from public spaces in 2020 By AARON MORRISON Associated Press February 23, 2021, 11:00 PM • 5 min read Catch up on the developing stories making headlines.The Associated Press NEW YORK -- When rioters tore through the U.S. Capitol last month, some of them gripping Confederate battle flags, they didn’t encounter a statue of the most famous rebel general, Robert E. Lee. The Lee statue, which represented the state of Virginia as part of the National Sta...

The SPLC says there are 704 Confederate monuments still standing across the U.S. And taking some of them down may be difficult.

The Southern Poverty Law Center, which keeps a raw count of nearly 2,100 statues, symbols, placards, buildings and public parks dedicated to the Confederacy, plans to release the latest figures from its “Whose Heritage?” database on Tuesday.

The law center has been tracking a movement to take down the monuments since 2015, when a white supremacist entered a South Carolina church and killed several Black parishioners.

The SPLC says 704 Confederate monuments are still standing across the U.S.