President Biden on Friday signed an executive order revoking two measures issued by former President Trump over the summer in response to protests against racial injustice that targeted monuments of controversial Americans.
Biden’s order revokes Trump’s executive order that established a “National Garden of American Heroes” that called for erecting statues of hundreds of prominent Americans.
It also revoked another executive order that prioritized punishment for those caught vandalizing statues or monuments. Both orders were signed by Trump during the summer of 2020 as protests took place around the country in response to the murder of George Floyd by a police officer who knelt on Floyd’s neck for nearly nine minutes.