Lee County supervisors to keep Confederate statue at current location

New at noon -- lee county supervisors decided to keep the confederate statue where it is on the courthouse grounds.

And they did it without a vote.

The board's only black supervisors -- tommie lee ivey -- made a motion to move the statue.

But no one else on the board seconded the motion, which kept the statue at its current spot.

Supervisor phil morgan issued a statement saying moving the monument would not have any effective results in race relations.

We'll share with you more reactions about this decision later today on w-t-v-a nine news.

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