Baltimore Took Down Confederate Statues In Stealth Overnight Sting

The city of Baltimore took down four Confederate monuments in a secret “sting” operation last night:

Confederate statues in Baltimore were removed from their bases overnight, as crews using heavy machinery loaded them onto flat bed trucks and hauled them away, an end to more than a year of indecision surrounding what to do with the memorials.

 

The action comes after Mayor Catherine Pugh pledged to remove four statues linked to the Confederacy from public spaces in the city and the Baltimore City Council unanimously passed a resolution to tear them down after a national conversation was renewed following a deadly act of terror during a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Va. on Saturday.

 

Mayor Catherine Pugh said Wednesday morning crews working for the city began removing the four Confederate monuments at 11:30 p.m. Tuesday and finished at 5:30 a.m.

 

“It’s done,” she said Wednesday morning. “They needed to come down. My concern is for the safety and security of our people. We moved as quickly as we could.”

 

Pugh said she personally watched as monuments were taken down.

Pugh must be so proud of herself. She’s FINALLY cleaning up the streets of Baltimore! Now that she took those evil, good-for-nothing statues down, maybe Baltimore will turn into a lovely, clean, safe city!

Good job, Catherine! Really focusing on the important stuff!

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Oh….wait. A murder a day, huh?

Um…keep focusing on inanimate objects, Catherine.