From the Washington Examiner: A statue of a Confederate general torn down by protesters during the 2020 nationwide Black Lives Matter unrest is back up in Washington, D.C.
The statue of Albert Pike was restored and reinstalled in Judiciary Square over the weekend, after President Donald Trump signed an executive order calling for the “restoration of Federal public monuments, memorials, statues, markers, or similar properties that have been damaged or defaced, or inappropriately removed or changed, in recent years.”
The Pike statue was erected over a century ago to honor his “influential role in the Masons,” according to the National Park Service.
By 2020, it had become known more widely as the only outdoor statue in the capital of a Confederate figure, due to Pike’s status as a brigadier general in the Confederate Army during the Civil War.
The report explains that the Pike statue had stood in Judiciary Square since 1901 along with over a dozen other Civil War-era monuments, but the Black Lives Matter protesters attacked it on the night of June 19, 2020. The mob thew a rope around the statue, pulled it down, covered it with graffiti and set it on fire.
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
Thank God Trump won pic.twitter.com/5jG4HSXGkp
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) August 5, 2025
President Trump condemned the violence on Twitter, writing, “The D.C. Police are not doing their job as they watch a statue be ripped down & burn. These people should be immediately arrested. A disgrace to our Country! @MayorBowser.”
The D.C. Police are not doing their job as they watch a statue be ripped down & burn. These people should be immediately arrested. A disgrace to our Country! @MayorBowser
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 20, 2020
Since the violent attack, the statue has been kept in a National Park Service storage facility, but it has now been restored and returned to it’s place in the Judiciary Square area of DC.
The statue of Albert Pike, torn down during the George Floyd protest due to his Klan affiliations, has been returned to the Judiciary Square area of DC, under police protection. pic.twitter.com/TSPwMOp3jn
— Andrew Leyden (@PenguinSix) October 27, 2025
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