And as important as the aforementioned and more City Council should install a public comment time for Monday evening city Council meetings.”.
©2020 FOX News Network, LLC. "I thought that was very inappropriate, very disrespectful and I also thought it was very disingenuous for a person that knew all of these artists and all of these community residents that did this as a sense of pride, that he would come out there and impose his belief over the will of hundreds of thousands of people who have made this a regional attraction," Griffin said. Nearby residents have taken pictures of a middle aged African-American male defacing the mural by writing over it with messages not consistent with the unifying message the mural represents. Black Lives Matter Cleveland issued a statement on its Facebook page saying a mural without substantive legislation to address systemic issues in the city’s black communities is a “media stunt.”. CLEVELAND, Ohio (WOIO) - The Black Lives Matter mural on Cleveland’s East side was vandalized with messages written across several of the streetwide letters.
It is about the collective community. All rights reserved. An organizer tells ABC 7 the mural was a response to white power fliers found in the city last week. Mutual Fund and ETF data provided by Refinitiv Lipper. A Black Lives Matter mural in a Cleveland neighborhood meant to honor the movement and those killed by law enforcement was defaced Monday with the messages that read “stop killing each other” and “Black Lives Matter is Marxist.”. Get all the stories you need-to-know from the most powerful name in news delivered first thing every morning to your inbox. Paul declined to comment on the criticism from Black Lives Matter Cleveland about the mural. The material on this site may not be reproduced, distributed, transmitted, cached or otherwise used, except with the prior written permission of Advance Local. Similar murals honoring Black Lives Matter have sprouted up in communities across the country following the death of George Floyd while in Minneapolis police custody last month.
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