Muralists began painting “BLACK LIVES MATTER” in large yellow paint on a block of 16th Street in Washington, D. C. Friday, just in front of Lafayette Park,…
Muralists began painting “BLACK LIVES MATTER” in large yellow paint on a block of 16th Street in Washington, D. C. Friday, just in front of Lafayette Park, the site of protests over the past week against police brutality in the wake of George Floyd’s death.
Nationwide protests against police brutality and racial discrimination have erupted after Floyd, a black man, died in Minneapolis police custody after a white officer pinned him to the ground under his knee.
The painting of the mural was at the direction of D. C. Mayor Muriel Bowser, according to her chief of staff, who said the mayor wanted to make it “abundantly clear” the street belonged to the city.
Bowser chief of staff John Falcicchio wrote on Twitter, “There was a dispute this week about whose street this week about whose street this is.
