Devon Henry

“I keep thinking about when this statue went up, '' McClellan said

John Mitchell said, " . . . it’ll be a Black man that takes it down,”

McClellan said, referring to a legendary Black newspaper editor from the Jim Crow era.

“And then I saw the contractor take a picture in front of it,” she said, gesturing to Devon Henry, who is Black and oversaw the tricky logistical effort. “I think the healing can begin.”
Virginia State Sen. Jennifer L. McClellan

CONTEXT: In 1890,
John Mitchell Jr., the crusading African-American editor of the Richmond Planet and a member of the city’s Board of Aldermen, objected to the monument's symbolism.

“The men who talk most about the valor of LEE, and the blood of the brave Confederate dead are those who never smelt powder or engaged in the battle,” he wrote in 1890. “Most of them were at a table, either on top or under it when the war was going on.”

The proliferation of Lost Cause adornments throughout Richmond angered Mitchell, who was born into slavery. He insisted that a Lee statue would bequeath to the future a “legacy of treason and blood.” In a further wrinkle, African-American laborers helped build the pedestal and place the massive statue upon the base. Mitchell suggested that the black men who put up the statue should, if that time came, be present to take it down. "
Richmond Magazine, June 22, 2017

In the photograph we see Devon Henry. His construction company, Team Henry, LLC. being awarded the contracts to remove other confederate monuments in other locations like Charlottesville., dismantled and removed the #LeeMonument in #RichmondVirginia.
After the removal he embraced his mom.

It was the largest Confederate statue in the nation.