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Tony Dungy, Buccaneers, Rays, Lightning paying to move statue

Tony Dungy challenged Tampa professionals sports teams to help pay to move a Confederate statue from in front of a local courthouse, and they have responded.

Confederate statues, and there are hundreds, are being taken down across the country in the wake of Saturday's violence in Charlottesvile, Virginia. White nationalists marched there, in part protesting the impeding removal of a statue of Robert E. Lee, the key Confederate military figure in the Civil War.

A woman, Heather Heyer, was killed when a car driven by a man from Ohio plowed into a crowd that was protesting the white nationalists.