It is telling that the Black Lives Matter wording in front of Trump Tower in midtown Manhattan in New York City, USA has been vandalized three times in one week.
The latest incident occurred on Saturday when two women from Staten Island, ages 39 and 29, were arrested after they were seen pouring paint on the mural, a New York Police Department spokesperson told CNN.
The Black Lives Matter message was first vandalized on Monday when an unnamed suspect dumped red paint on the V in "Lives". And on Friday, surveillance video captured three individuals "pouring and smearing paint on the mural and one female spreading flyers at the scene".
It's not only happening in New York but elsewhere too. From Martinez, California and Chicago, Illinois to Cleveland, Ohio and Montpelier, Vermont, Black Lives Matter murals were not spared.
On July 04, 2020, in Martinez, someone in fact, asked one unidentified vandal “What is wrong with you?” from off-camera, in a viral video of the incident also shared by police.
“We’re sick of this narrative, that’s what’s wrong”, the man responded. “The narrative of police brutality, the narrative of oppression, the narrative of racism. It’s a lie”.
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