Monte Lemon sits by the now covered confederate monument in Linn Park on August 18, 2017 in Birmingham, Alabama. Lemon stated that the controversy over the monument is ISIS come to America. Lemon wished officials would concern themselves with homeless and hungry people instead of old monuments. Alabamas attorney general Steve Marshall sued the city of Birmingham and the mayor for partially covering the Confederate monument with a wooden box, citing it violated the Alabama Memorial Preservation Act.