it's just something an artist did and isn't any kind of official replacement.

It'll be made official retroactively. No government official has the spine to take that statue down again. Between the hit pieces from journalists, threats from activists and the opportunity to virtue signal nobody is going to touch the statue. Hell, I'm calling it now: they're going to replace it with a proper metal statue.

Edit: Well waddayaknow, I was wrong. The city council actually removed it.

it's just something an artist did and isn't any kind of official replacement.

It'll be made official retroactively. No government official has the spine to take that statue down again. Between the hit pieces from journalists, threats from activists and the opportunity to virtue signal nobody is going to touch the statue. Hell, I'm calling it now: they're going to replace it with a proper metal statue.