The Lexington-Fayette Urban County Council gave initial approval on a voice vote Tuesday to move the statues of Confederate officers John Hunt Morgan and John C. Breckinridge to an undetermined location. The proposal still needs further council action.
The vote came after three people died related to violent protests at a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. Council members heard more than an hour of public comment on the proposal, with most of it supporting relocation of the statues.
The city would still have to ask a state military heritage commission for permission to move the statues. The leader of a white nationalist group said it is planning an event in Lexington soon.