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Baltimore mayor vetoes renaming Christopher Columbus obelisk

| November 16, 2020 6:33 PM

BALTIMORE (AP) — Baltimore's mayor has vetoed a bill that would have rededicated a Christopher Columbus monument to victims of police violence, sharing concerns with the city's police commissioner that the two-story-tall obelisk is too close to a separate monument honoring fallen officers.

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