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Workers Remove Baltimore Confederate Monuments Overnight

by Associated Press

   BALTIMORE --

   Confederate monuments have been removed overnight in Baltimore.

   Local news outlets report that workers hauled the monuments away early
   Wednesday, days after a white nationalist rally in Virginia turned
   deadly.
   WBAL-TV reports that a crane removed a monument to Robert E. Lee and
   Thomas J. "Stonewall'' Jackson'' from its pedestal around 3 a.m. and
   placed it on a flatbed truck 45 minutes later.
   Photos taken by The Baltimore Sun shows workers taking away a monument
   dedicated to the Confederate Women of Maryland.

   Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh told the newspaper that crews began
   removing the city's four Confederate monuments late Tuesday and
   finished around 5:30 a.m. Wednesday.
   Pugh said the monuments "needed to come down." The mayor watched as
   workers removed the statues in the dark.