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The judge also ruled that the city must "preserve and maintain" the statue for the rest of its useful life.

"The litigation has absolutely complicated matters, slowed things down, and I think kind of dragged out the division in the community and the hurt."

"This is not about anything evil. This is about unity. And we want to make sure that we don’t have the city of Syracuse in 2020 to make a horrible, irretrievable, irreparable mistake."

Those people who “ignore Christopher Columbus’ role in giving the green light to centuries of racism and dehumanizing of Indigenous peoples must be called to task."