The city of Charlottesville, Va., has covered up the Confederate statue that was the focus of a white supremacist rally there earlier this month.

Workers draped a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee with large black fabric on Wednesday, a little more than two weeks after violence broke out at a white supremacist rally organized to protest the monument’s removal, CNN reported.

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The Charlottesville City Council voted to cover the statue at a meeting earlier this week. The mayor of Charlottesville also called for the Lee statue to be removed last week.

One woman was killed and more than a dozen others were wounded when a car was driven into a crowd of counterprotestors at the rally earlier this month.

The move comes as other cities across the country are removing Confederate statues.