Across L.A., Black Lives Matter murals appear like billboards for justice

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The Black Lives Matter movement has inspired murals honoring Black lives and people killed by police brutality. But time poses a threat to the art.

, a Venice-based artist known as MuckRock. Signs that read “Black owned” and “POC owned” were posted outside businesses to deter a small number of people among the mostly peaceful protesters from breaking in.By mid-July, most of the portraits were gone. The signs were removed; a plywood board scrawled with Floyd’s last words — “I can’t breathe” among them — were stored in a basement. Most of the shops and restaurants had reopened.

Taylor, a Black woman who worked as an emergency medical technician, was killed in March when Louisville police, executing a search warrant, broke down her apartment’s door and shot her eight times.“I spent seven years as a healthcare professional, specifically as an EMT, so I recognize the grueling toll it can take on one’s body and psyche,” he said. It’s an experience he relates to.

When Alexandra Allie Belisle, 22, was approached to contribute to the Black Lives Matter mural outside the comedy club, she also wanted to honor Black women like Taylor. Often, in conversations about injustice and racism, “Black women get overlooked,” said Belisle, a student and artist who painted a masked protester holding up a sign that read: “Protect Black Women.”happens to women of color, “it doesn’t get the same type of outrage and attention,” she said.

 

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DoranyPineda90 nswalker ThisIsRYOT So good! What other thieves and drug dealers can we immortalise? Finally criminals are getting the recognition they deserve 👏

DoranyPineda90 nswalker ThisIsRYOT Can we also address our black countrymen being murdered at numbers higher than annual police violence EVERY weekend by our black countrymen?

DoranyPineda90 nswalker ThisIsRYOT Except that George Floyd died due to the toxic levels of fentanyl is his system -- why can't you be honest?

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And this is definitely more than three billboards.

Why? They are tearing the country apart.

Black Lives Matter’s strange way they view life.

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Or vandelist grafetti. Either, or.

Silverlake walk is a good example. !

This let's us know unequivocally that morons can paint. Now that issue is forever settled and the controversy can end.

Murals of intolerance of other points of view.

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