Richmond resident Devin Curtis, who is Black, approached a small group of Sons of Confederate Veterans members who were watching from the busy intersection where the statue stood for over a century.Curtis asked why the men were wearing big Confederate battle flags on the back of their leather vests.Another white man defended the symbol, the discussion grew loud, and others joined in on both sides, several of them armed.Hill’s statue outlasted about a dozen others taken down since the social-justice protests of 2020.City officials have said they plan to give the statue to the Black History Museum & Cultural Center of Virginia in Richmond, which was the capital of the Confederacy for most of the Civil War."