Charlottesville: Baltimore’s Confederate monuments removed overnight after violence

Baltimore residents wake up to find the city’s Confederate monuments gone, days after white supremacists led a deadly protest over the planned removal of a Confederate statue in Charlottesville, Virginia.

Work crews took down the monuments in the middle of the night, after the city council approved the removal of four statues, The Baltimore Sun reported.

Monuments to Robert E Lee, commander of the pro-slavery Confederate army in the American Civil War, and Confederate General Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson were dismantled from the Maryland city’s Wyman Park Dell…

Source: Charlottesville: Baltimore’s Confederate monuments removed overnight after violence – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)