City of DC Painting 'Black Lives Matter' on Street Near White House
The city of Washington, D.C., is echoing a call for justice by painting a message on a street that leads to the White House: Black lives matter.
Before dawn Friday, a D.C. Department of Public Works crew closed the street so the painting could begin. The yellow letters stretched from curb to curb of 16th Street NW between H and K streets.
The two blocks are just north of Lafayette Square, where anti-police-brutality and anti-racism protesters have chanted "Black lives matter" for a week, moved by the death of George Floyd.
District leaders are showing support for a movement decrying the deaths of Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor and other African Americans as consequences of an inequitable, racially biased justice system.
The "Black lives matter" message will be close to where federal forces used munitions and pepper spray on Monday to clear peaceful protesters and make way for President Donald Trump to take a photo outside St. John's Church, which was damaged by a fire during protests.
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