DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF) – The Dallas City Council has approved the sale of the Robert E. Lee Confederate statue removed from a Dallas Park in 2017.
The 1935 Alexander Proctor sculpture of the Confederate General has been in a city storage facility since it was taken down. Last week the Dallas Law Firm Holmes Firm PC bought the statue for more than $1.4 million at auction. The city spent $450,000 to take the statue down. It was appraised at higher than $900,000.
That sale was approved Wednesday by the Dallas City Council under one condition.
“Not to be publicly displayed in the Dallas-Fort Worth metropolitan area,” clarified Councilman Lee Kleinman.
There was little opposition by the council to the sale, but Councilwoman Sandy Greyson was hesitant.
“To say that we are not going to allow it to be shown in Fort Worth or Arlington, or anywhere else, seems like a reach we really shouldn’t be making,” Greyson said.
But, Greyson voted in favor of the sale, citing a need for the City Council to put the issue to bed. The measure passed 12-1.
Dallas Attorney Ronald Holmes agreed to the condition of the sale but didn’t say what he plans to do with the statue.
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