The National Park Service announced Monday it will reinstall in Washington the statue of Confederate Gen. Albert Pike, which was vandalized and toppled during the Black Lives Matter riots of 2020.

Rioters pulled down the statue, not far from Metropolitan Police Department headquarters, on live TV in June 2020. President Donald Trump called for the statue to be reinstalled during his first term; his executive order aims to make it happen this fall.

“The restoration aligns with federal responsibilities under historic preservation law as well as recent executive orders to beautify the nation’s capital and re-instate pre-existing statues,” the Park Service said in a statement.

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