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Ritze sponsored a bill in 2009 to have a monument to the Ten Commandments installed at the Oklahoma State Capitol. His family supplied $10,000 to fund the monument, which was installed in 2012. On the night of Thursday, October 23, 2014, someone drove a vehicle across the Oklahoma State Capitol lawn and into the monument, shattering lieutenant
Police have impounded the vehicle and have started an investigation.
A second copy of the monument has been made and erected to replace lieutenant In July 2015, the Oklahoma Supreme Court ruled that the re-erected monument must be removed because it violates the Oklahoma Constitution.
The case is Prescott v. Capitol Preservation Commission.
