Crews in New York City have shut down a block of Fifth Avenue in front of Trump Tower Thursday to paint a Black Lives Matter mural.
#BREAKING: Painters start work on #BlackLivesMatter mural outside Trump Tower in NYC. pic.twitter.com/MQQe2b9YDJ
— The Hill (@thehill)
July 9, 2020 The mural will cover 56th to 57th streets. Just last week, President Trump said the words would be "denigrating," to the street, according to The Washington Post.
According to NBC News, Mayor Bill de Blasio will likely join in on helping to paint the mural.
"Here’s what you don’t understand: Black people BUILT 5th Ave and so much of this nation. Your 'luxury' came from THEIR labor, for which they have never been justly compensated. We are honoring them," Mayor de Blasio tweeted last week. "The fact that you see it as denigrating your street is the definition of racism."
By Thursday afternoon,
it was reported by 1010 Wins that members of the Central Park Five -- the Black and Latino men who were arrested as teenagers and wrongfully convicted in the high-profile 1989 jogger attack -- were also on hand to paint the mural.
Members of the exonerated Central Park Five help paint #BlackLivesMatter on the street in front of Trump Tower on New York’s Fifth Avenue. pic.twitter.com/Cw2AB2zhb9
— Keith Boykin (@keithboykin)
July 9, 2020 In June, Washington D.C. city workers and activists painted the words Black Lives Matter in enormous bright yellow letters on the street leading to the White House, a highly visible sign of the District of Columbia's embrace of a protest movement that has put it at odds with President Donald Trump.
Vice President Mike Pence says he doesn’t want to say “Black Lives Matter” because he doesn’t agree with what he believes is the political message behind it.
