Lawyer optimistic Confederate monument will be moved
Tommy DeJean, an Opelousas attorney representing the Sons of Confederate Veterans, explains the status of moving a Confederate monument off the St. Landry Parish courthouse grounds at Wednesday’s Parish Council meeting in Opelousas. (Photo by Harlan Kirgan)
The Confederate monument on the St. Landry Parish courthouse grounds. (Photo by Harlan Kirgan)
Opelousas attorney Tommy DeJean assured the St. Landry Parish Council the Sons of Confederate Veterans will have a plan within six weeks to move a Confederate monument off the courthouse grounds.
Moving the monument has often been met with an emotional response, but at Wednesday’s Council meeting the subject was matter of fact.
“We are getting there,” DeJean said of a plan and moving the monum…
