Rest of the headline...'sooner rather than later'. Mayor Mitch Landrieu held a brief news conference Monday morning on the overnight removal of the Liberty Place monument. He insisted that security concerns justified taking the obelisk down in the early morning hours and without warning, rather than scheduling any kind of public ceremony. And he said the other three monuments scheduled for removal would be taken down in the same manner, adding only that it would happen "sooner rather than later." The mayor chose to speak in front of a monument to fallen police officers in front of New Orleans Police...