Md. Historical Trust: Baltimore Officials Didn’t Have Authority To Remove Monuments

BALTIMORE (WJZ) —Baltimore officials did not have the right to hastily remove statues that commemorated Confederate figures in August, according to a Maryland Historical Trust letterobtained by The Baltimore Sun.
A letter written by trust director Elizabeth Hughes, dated Oct. 20, says the trustees said that the trust “will not concede” that it “lacks the authority … to compel restoration” of the statues, and that “the Trustees believe that the best way