Confederate statues were quietly removed overnight in Baltimore following a year-long debate over Mayor Catherine Pugh’s pledge to get rid of them.
Four statues linked to the Confederacy were removed. The Baltimore City Council had passed a resolution to remove them following the violence in Charlottesville, Va., over the weekend that left one dead and more than a dozen injured at the hands of a white nationalist.
“It’s done,” Pugh said Wednesday morning. “They needed to come down. My concern is for the safety and security of our people. We moved as quickly as we could.”
The crews began removing the statues from their bases at 11:30 p.m. Tuesday night, and finished at 5:30 a.m. early Wednesday.
Pugh said she “personally” watched their removal.
The Robert E. Lee & “Stonewall” Jackson Monument at Wyman Park Dell near Johns Hopkins University was torn down as the sun came up.
Other statues removed included the Confederate Soldiers and Sailors Monument on Mount Royal Avenue, the Confederate Women’s Monument on West University Parkway, and the Roger B. Taney Monument on Mount Vernon Place, the Baltimore Sun reported.
Baltimore's statue of Roger Taney – author of the 1857 Dred Scott decision that denied citizenship to black people – was removed overnight. pic.twitter.com/Qg7WbUK5K1
— Talia Richman (@TaliRichman) August 16, 2017
For those just waking up, here's what happened in Baltimore: the city's dead-of-night removal of all four of its Confederate monuments. pic.twitter.com/gaquP2hlqN
— Alec MacGillis (@AlecMacGillis) August 16, 2017
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Baltimore quietly removes confederate statues overnight https://t.co/E1cZ8v7RMF pic.twitter.com/5LLdNj7nB9
— Washington Examiner (@dcexaminer) August 16, 2017
This is ridiculous.
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