Confederate statues were quietly removed overnight in Baltimore following a year-long debate over Mayor Catherine Pugh’s pledge to get rid of them.

Four statues linked to the Confederacy were removed. The Baltimore City Council had passed a resolution to remove them following the violence in Charlottesville, Va., over the weekend that left one dead and more than a dozen injured at the hands of a white nationalist.

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