In Overnight Move, Baltimore Removes Confederate Statues

Four Confederate monuments that stood in Baltimore on Tuesday morning were no longer there as of Wednesday morning. 

The city undertook a surprise overnight operation to remove them, with crews starting about 11:30pm and working until the early morning, reports the Baltimore Sun. (See video.) "They needed to come down," says Mayor Catherine Pugh. "My concern is for the safety and security of our people. We moved as quickly as we could." 

Overshadowing the move, of course, is the violence in Charlottesville, Va., that revolved around the removal of a statue of Gen. Robert E. Lee. One of the statues that came down in Baltimore was of Lee with fellow Confederate Gen. Stonewall Jackson. It had stood in a city park since 1948, notes the New York Times.

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