'Don't forget': mural brings attention to the January 6 rioters pardoned by Trump

[erronis]

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/07/wall-of-shame-january-6-pardons
David Smith

A giant new mural, titled Wall of Shame, has launched in Brooklyn, New York, to remind people of the alleged crimes committed by more than 1,500 Maga loyalists

‘We’re using this symbolic art piece to rally around a different flag’ … the Wall of Shame by Phil Buehler. Photograph: Phil Buehler

Audrey Southard-Rumsey pushed a flagpole into a police officer’s chest. Ralph Celentano shoved an officer over a ledge. Pauline Bauer accused Democrats of stealing an election and trafficking children and demanded: “Bring Nancy Pelosi out here now. We want to hang that fucking bitch.”

These are just three of the stories told on the Wall of Shame, a public installation by artist Phil Buehler that launched on 4 July in Bushwick, Brooklyn, New York. The giant red, white and blue mural aims to document and highlight the stories and alleged crimes of more than 1,575 people involved in the January 6 2021 attack on the US Capitol who were pardoned by Donald Trump.

The project is the third in what might be called Buehler’s art against autocracy trilogy, a series of collaborations with the non-profit Radio Free Brooklyn. It began in 2020 with the Wall of Lies, a 50ft mural displaying more than 20,000 lies told by Trump during his first term in office. The second installation, the Wall of Liars and Deniers, was a mural displaying the 381 Republican politicians running in the 2022 midterm elections who denied Democrat Joe Biden’s legitimacy as president.

“Artists can have more power than Fox News to turn this around,” Buehler says in a Zoom interview from his Brooklyn studio, reflecting on the struggle for truth in the Trump era. “Boy, would Magaland hate it if culture, music and art [pushed back]. You’ve got to double down the other way and start flooding this zone with art as Trump tries to erase it.”

The Wall of Shame is a 50ft-long, 10ft-tall outdoor mural featuring the pardoned Trump supporters, colour-coded to distinguish their actions: violent rioters appear in red, those who damaged property are shown in blue, and the remaining individuals are depicted in white. The combined effect resembles a Star and Stripes that has imploded.

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Link to RadioFreeBrooklyn and the Wall of Shame: https://www.radiofreebrooklyn.org/wall-of-shame-to-launch-on-the-fourth-of-july/

[SheltieLover]

1. Off to the greatest page!

[scarletlib]

13. Bravo!

[SheltieLover]

14. Thx!

[Emile]

2. They need a Mobile Wall of Shame Memorial Wall

on tour of the United States.

[erronis]

3. Excellent idea.

I would worry about the safety of the drivers, though.

[wendyb-NC]

4. Brilliant creation

Thank you, to Mr Buehler for "art against autocracy trilogy" that day won't go away it will in infamy as it should, with the perpetrators, and main instigator exposed.

[Retrograde]

5. Alleged? Weren't they tried and convicted?

Donnie pardoned them, but a pardon implies a conviction

[erronis]

6. You're absolutely right. They aren't "alleged" criminals - they were found guilty.

Rare sloppiness from The Guardian's headline writers.

[homegirl]

9. The aceptance of a pardon is

am admission of guilt!

[Martin68]

7. Every state should have a wall of shame like this to commemorate the attempted insurrection Trump planned, organized

and supported.

[moondust]

8. I wish somebody

would add up all the human-hours it took to investigate and prosecute all those criminals and how much it cost. That would make a nice little sign to add to the exhibits.

[markodochartaigh]

10. They should put the names of the ones

who shit in the Capitol in brown.

[SheltieLover]

15. Or denote with a 💩

[Cha]

11. Mahalo, erronis and to Phil Buehler.. and

the Wall of Shame!

[BoRaGard]

12. republicons who betrayed America and Americans

History will record their betrayal not just of America, but also of the teachings of Christ which they claim to follow.

[pattyloutwo]

16. Excellent work