From the Liveblog of
Wednesday, August 16, 2017
Confederate monuments removed overnight in Baltimore
Confederate monuments in Baltimore were quietly removed and hauled away on trucks in darkness early Wednesday, days after a violent white nationalist rally in Virginia that was sparked by plans to take down a similar statue there.
Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh tells The Baltimore Sun that crews began removing the city’s four Confederate monuments late Tuesday and finished this morning around 5:30 a.m.
At 3:40 AM in Baltimore, Confederate Statutes of Lee and Jackson were taken down with a crane and moved out of the city on flatbed trucks. pic.twitter.com/hKh5aueLex
— Amee Vanderpool (@girlsreallyrule) August 16, 2017
“It’s done,” Pugh tells the newspaper. “They needed to come down. My concern is for the safety and security of our people. We moved as quickly as we could.”
Workers used cranes to lift the towering monument to Robert E. Lee and Thomas J. “Stonewall” Jackson onto a flatbed truck in the dark.
— AP
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