The Maryland Office of the Public Defender, the Talbot County Branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), attorney Kisha Petticolas, and community activist Richard M. Potter joined with the American Civil Liberties Union of Maryland and the Washington, D.C. law firm Crowell & Moring LLP to file suit in federal district court in Baltimore challenging as racist and illegal Talbot County’s placement and retention of a Confederate monument on the grounds of the county courthouse in Easton — the last on public land in Maryland.
The lawsuit demands immediate removal of the racist Confederate statue from the county courthouse lawn in Easton, Maryland. The plaintiffs make it clear that “Talbot Boys” is a monument to white supremacy with no place on the public square.