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Strange theft of Confederate chair mystifies Alabama town by Kim Chandler And Rebecca Santana, The Associated Press Posted Apr 28, 2021 12:56 pm EDT Last Updated Apr 28, 2021 at 12:58 pm EDT SELMA, Ala. — It’s not the first Confederate monument to go missing in Selma, Alabama, but the story of the stolen Jefferson Davis chair may be the oddest. How to steal a chair that weighed maybe 500 pounds (225 kilograms)? Who was the group “White Lies Matter” that appeared to have stolen the chair to make a statement about how we remember the Confederacy? What of the ransom demand that didn’t ...

Kim Chandler And Rebecca Santana April 28, 2021 - 9:56 AM SELMA, Ala. - It’s not the first Confederate monument to go missing in Selma, Alabama, but the story of the stolen Jefferson Davis chair may be the oddest. How to steal a chair that weighed maybe 500 pounds (225 kilograms)? Who was the group “White Lies Matter" that appeared to have stolen the chair to make a statement about how we remember the Confederacy? What of the ransom demand that didn't ask for money, but included threats of a scatological nature? And how did the chair end up 300 miles (480...