Video: ‘Black Lives Matter Plaza’ Being Dismantled and Painted Over in DC
Workers in Washington, D.C., have started the process of dismantling Black Lives Matter Plaza — including the bright yellow mural that has been on 16th Street since the race riots of June 2020.
D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser ordered the eyesore painted a block away from the White House after George Floyd’s death.
Bowser described the city-sanctioned vandalism as a show of “solidarity,” but it was widely mocked as pandering — even by the left.
The 35-foot-tall letters cost taxpayers over $4 million to install and maintain.
Congress passed the removal of the mural after Republican Rep. Andrew Clyde introduced a bill threatening to withhold millions in federal funds from D.C. unless the removal was conducted and the plaza renamed “Liberty Plaza.”
Bowser tried to save face after caving, writing on X:
“The mural inspired millions of people and helped our city through a painful period, but now we can’t afford to be distracted by meaningless congressional interference. The devastating impacts of the federal job cuts must be our number one concern.”
The removal process, estimated at $610,000, is expected to take six to eight weeks.
