While you were sleeping, Baltimore removed 4 Confederate monuments from around the city:
.@MayorPugh50 says crews worked from 11:30 pm to 5:30 am removing Baltimore's Confederate monuments. "We moved as quickly as we could."
— Luke Broadwater (@lukebroadwater) August 16, 2017
Baltimore has begun removing Confederate statues in the wake of the violence in Charlottesville this past weekend https://t.co/PZFmVNCXsd pic.twitter.com/Vd9NOYtKRA
— CBS News (@CBSNews) August 16, 2017
And poof they’re gone:
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
Confederate Monuments coming down tonight; right now. Lee Jackson has caution tape around it. Police here pic.twitter.com/GlJmlucRgK
— brandon soderberg (@notrivia) August 16, 2017
Baltimore mayor Cathy Pugh steps out of SUV to watch as crane prepares to lift Confederate monument in dead of night. pic.twitter.com/AN6vQRrFRt
— Alec MacGillis (@AlecMacGillis) August 16, 2017
Confederate monuments removed from their bases, loaded onto flat bed trucks in Baltimore overnight. https://t.co/Q29hfYD7IW pic.twitter.com/guuekSQ3b6
— Sean Welsh (@SeanJWelsh) August 16, 2017
The #confederate Soldiers & Sailors monument in #Baltimore at midnight last night. pic.twitter.com/Z5PXco0FXW
— Tedd Henn (@teddhenn) August 15, 2017
Lee & Jackson Monument at Wyman Park Dell, site of Sunday's protest, is gone the morning after the city decided to take the monuments down pic.twitter.com/swSZW8NCR1
— Colin Campbell ☀️ (@cmcampbell6) August 16, 2017
All that’s left is the graffiti:
The messages left on pedestal of removed confederate statue in #Baltimore it & 3 others were taken down overnight by city.@cbsbaltimore #WJZ pic.twitter.com/zeiqh8Eue2
— Amy Yensi WJZ (@AmyWJZ) August 16, 2017
The City Council had voted on Monday night to remove the monuments:
#BREAKING: Baltimore City Council just adopted resolution to destroy all Confederate monuments #Resist #ImpeachTrump https://t.co/9K8ZvWILQt
— Scott Dworkin (@funder) August 15, 2017
All of Baltimore’s problems now solved! Great job, everyone!
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