A statue of Confederate Gen. Stonewall Jackson is covered with a black shroud in Charlottesville, Va. Wednesday (Courtesy C-Ville Weekly) Police asked him to stop, and he complied.

On an industrial park about an hour’s drive toward the South China Sea coast from Ho Chi Minh City sit giant mounds of raw metal shrouded in black tarpaulin. Stretching a kilometer in length ...

City workers drape a tarp over the statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee in Emancipation park in Charlottesville, Virginia, on Aug. 23. Steve Helber / AP ...

Workers in Charlottesville, Virginia, placed large black tarps Wednesday over two monuments to Confederate military generals, according to video from CNN affiliate WVIR.