The city of DC is out here on 16th steeet behind the White House painting BLACK LIVES MATTER onto the streets - that it owns - stretching all the way to k Street. Organizers painted those words in big yellow letters on the pavement. Street that leads to the White House renamed Black Lives Matter Plaza. ![]() ![]() The painters were contacted by Bowser and began work early Friday morning, the mayor’s office told CNN. Using rollers and buckets of bright yellow paint, a group of people - men and women, of different races and ages- were filmed finishing the street art. That message is to the American people that black lives matter, black humanity matters, and we as a city raise that up,” the mayor said. “And we had the opportunity to send that message loud and clear on a very important street in our city. There are people who are craving to be heard and to be seen and to have their humanity recognized,” she said during a news conference on Friday. There’s a lot of distrust of police in the government. It is the same church where President Trump made a visit amid the protests earlier this week and did a photo op holding a Bible after officers in riot gear fired tear gas and charged demonstrators to make way for him. The new sign has been installed at the intersection of H and 16th Streets, the site of St John’s Episcopal Church. The section of 16th street in front of the White House is now officially “Black Lives Matter Plaza”. ![]() The clip of the sign being put up is going viral and has garnered over 4 million views at the time of writing. Bowser also dedicated the section of 16th Street bearing the mural “Black Lives Matter” to the movement and officially named the street leading up to the White House ‘Black Lives Matter Plaza’.
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