Denver city officials said Monday they would not put back up a statue of Christopher Columbus that was torn down by protesters in the wake of George Floyd’s murder in 2020. The fate of the monument – and another of frontiersman Kit Carson that the city pro-actively removed after the Columbus monument was toppled – had been in limbo for years.

“The City and County of Denver will not be reinstalling the ‘Christopher Columbus’ sculpture by William Joseph nor the Pioneer Fountain piece depicting Kit Carson by Frederick MacMonnies,” Tariana Navas-Nieves, the director of cultural affairs for Denver Arts & Venues, wrote Monday to members of the Denver American Indian Commission.