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The Black Lives Matter mural that was painted on 16th Street in Washington, D.C., just two blocks from the White House, was a shot across the bow to Donald Trump after the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis.
That was in June 2020. The street art was a point of pride for Mayor Muriel Bowser, who was photographed proudly surveying the work.
But a lot has happened since that BLM slogan was painted on the street. The national Black Lives Matter organization received upwards of $100 million from mostly large corporations, which it spent on some curious items, including a $6 million mansion for BLM co-founder Patrisse Cullors and exorbitant salaries for friends and relatives of BLM officers.
After Cullors left the group, there was $60 million still in the bank with no one in charge of it. Things went downhill for BLM from there.
Several members of local chapters were caught with their hands in the cookie jar and sent to prison. Then came the 2022 and 2024 elections, where the Democrats got clobbered for supporting the BLM «Defund the Police» idiocy. Democratic politicians tiptoed away from BLM, claiming they never heard of it. or something like that.
Bowser and other big-city Democrats have ridden the BLM pony as far as they can.
