After the violent act that killed one and injured nineteen in Charlottesville, Virginia, neighbouring city, Baltimore in an overnight operation on Wednesday removed Confederate Statues across city parks, public squares and took them out of town.
The removal crew came with a crane and some police officers, while the people watch and were all in a happy mood for the removal of the statues.
Robert E. Lee and Thomas J. “Stonewall”
The city has studied the situation of the statues since 2015, after a White supremacist, Dylan Roof killed 9 African-Americans in a church in Charleston, S.C. The statues were then ordered to be removed by the city Mayor Catherine Pugh, after a vote by the city council on Monday to remove them.
Robert E. Lee and Thomas J. “Stonewall”
At 3:30am, the statues removed includes the Robert E. Lee and Thomas J. “Stonewall” Jackson Monument, a double equestrian statue of the Confederate generals erected in 1948; the Confederate Soldiers and Sailors Monument, erected in 1903; and the Roger B. Taney Monument, erected in 1887.
Confederate flag removed
The fourth statue of the Confederate Women’s Monument, which was dedicated in 1917 was also shown to have been taken down on Wednesday.
The team of police officers followed the statues out of town where Mayor Pugh had suggested that it goes to other confederate cemeteries elsewhere in the state. Though one city councilman suggested the statues should not be moved, but destroyed instead.