'Say Their Names' mural vandalized on MLK Day

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: KSTX/TPR/NPR

Published January 20, 2026 at 7:32 AM CST


A mural memorializing 14 Bexar County and San Antonio residents killed by law enforcement officers or in-custody deaths was defaced outside of Martin Luther King Jr. Academy on MLK Day.

At least 10 of the 14 portraits were defaced some time between Sunday and Monday. The mural was completed last month after a process that began in March of last year. It features family members holding photographs of their deceased loved ones.

The mural was commissioned by ACT 4 SA and was painted on the wall of Greater Faith Institutional Church at 3514 Martin Luther King Drive, an area where earlier in the day more than 300,000 people participated in the annual march honoring Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

ACT 4 SA Executive Director Ananda Tomas said the mural is meant to remind people that the names depicted there are human and not criminals or a number. “These are people. They're brothers or sisters or fathers or daughters,” she said.

Read more: https://www.tpr.org/criminal-justice/2026-01-20/say-their-names-mural-vandalized-on-mlk-day

[Easterncedar]

1. Much more aggression at the protest today

Here in Augusta Maine: last week we had something like only 1 in 30 cars flipping us off; today 1 in 10 flipping us off and/or screaming obscenities.

[chowder66]

2. You must be doing it right.

[BumRushDaShow]

4. 45 called up the scum of the scum

who crawled out from under their muck to vote for him. So they are all out and about spreading their slime all around the country.

[chowder66]

3. What a pathetic act by pathetic assholes.