Virginia protesters behead Confederate statue

Protesters in Virgina damd and pulled down confederate statues overnight Wednesday in wake of George Floyd's death.

In Portsmouth, Virginia, protesters kcked hes off statues of four Confederates and pulled one of statues to ground after City Council put off a decision on moving monument.

A protester was hit in he and kcked unconscious as monument fell. He was hospitalized with what police said were life-threatening injuries.

In Richmond, protesters pulled down a century-old statue of Confederate President Jefferson Davis in former capital of Confederacy, ding it to list of Old South monuments removed or damd around US.

In weeks since Floyd's death under a white Minneapolis police officer's knee set off protests and sporic violence across U.S. over treatment of black people, many Confederate monuments have been damd or brought down, some toppled by demonstrators, ors removed by local authorities.