I dunno if the statute was "harming" anyone, but Washington at the head of a column of Continentals with bayonets fixed sure did. Ask the Hessians.[PortlandTribune] "We know there are problematic statues and other pieces of art in the city's collection," said the spokeswoman, Heather Nelson Kent. "Some of these pieces really harm people."
"We really want to have a conversation about how to address the issues that those pieces of art raise," Nelson Kent said. "Do we remove things? We've removed things. We've moved things. We can take things out of the collection. We can reinterpret things."