Ummmm.....
WaPo article:
Baltimore Mayor Catherine E. Pugh (D) said in an interview that she decided Tuesday to get rid of the statues through a stealth operation after a contractor was ready for the task.
I said, We want to do it tonight, away from fanfare,  said Pugh, who stayed up all night monitoring the statue removals between 11 p.m. Tuesday and about 5 a.m. Wednesday. We all are seeing lessons via the media of uprisings and violence, and violence is not what we need in our city.
CNN article:
University of Texas at Austin President Gregory Fenves said the removal of the statues was spurred by the "horrific displays of hatred at the University of Virginia and in Charlottesville" on August 12.
The removals at UT Austin follow another recent trend -- taking down monuments abruptly in the middle of the night to avoid potentially violent protests like the ones that rocked Charlottesville.
