AUSTIN (WBAP/KLIF News) — Four Confederate monuments on the campus at the University of Texas at Austin were taken down overnight Monday.
The school’s president issued a statement, which can be read here, saying he wanted to move them from their pedestals because the events in Charlottesville more than a week ago have made the statues “symbols of modern white supremacy and neo-nazism.”
And they did it without advance notice without giving groups on either side a chance to protest, citing public safety concerns.
Three of the statues will be moved to an on-campus American history center, just like the Jefferson Davis statue that was removed two years ago following the Charleston church shooting.
The fourth, which is of former Texas Governor James Hogg, could still move to a different spot on campus. Hogg’s father was a Confederate general.
