An online petition has more than 8,000 signatures asking to take down an Abraham Lincoln statue in the city’s Park Square.
The statue is a replica of the Emancipation Memorial in Washington and shows Lincoln with one hand raised above a kneeling man with shackles on his wrists.
The monument was intended to show Lincoln freeing the man from slavery, but a new petition claims that it “instead represents us still beneath someone else.”
Boston’s mayor Marty Walsh’s office says he’s in favor of taking down the statue.