Baltimore Removes 4 Confederate Statues Overnight
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Days after white supremacists descended upon Charlottesville in a deadly, violent rally to protest the removal of a Confederate monument in Charlottesville, the City of Baltimore quietly removed its four Confederate statues in the early hours of Wednesday morning.
Baltimore has been debating the removals of the monuments since 2015, after white supremacist and mass shooter Dylann Roof opened lethal fire on a black church in South Carolina. In wake of the violence in Charlottesville, in which a white nationalist plowed through a crowd with a car and killed one woman, on Monday Baltimore’s City Council voted for their removal. Mayor Catherine Pugh issued the final order.