Charlottesville mayor: ‘I changed my mind about Confederate monuments’

CHARLOTTESVILLE —  Earlier this year, Charlottesville Mayor Mike Signer voted against moving the Robert E. Lee statue out of a city park. Instead, he wanted to create “a new context” around the statue of the Confederate general. Now Signer has changed his mind. He wants Lee gone ASAP. “I think everything changed last weekend,” Signer said Friday on CNN’s “AC360,” referring to the violence that broke out when white supremacists and neo-Nazis ca