DC’s leftist mayor tried to get one up on Trump by renaming an intersection near Lafayette Park “Black Lives Matter Plaza”, and having “Black Lives Matter” painted on the road, obviously making a statement about the phony narrative around Barr moving the people out of Lafayette Square on Monday:
POLITICO – An intersection near the White House where federal law enforcement used chemical irritants and flash-bang grenades earlier this week to clear a peaceful demonstration against racial injustice has a new name: Black Lives Matter Plaza.
The designation from the District of Columbia’s government comes after more than a week of protests over the death of George Floyd, a black Minneapolis man who was killed in the custody of police last week.
The protests have in some instances turned violent, including last weekend in the District of Columbia, where an alphabet soup of federal and local law enforcement and military forces were called in to quell bouts of unrest and restore order.
On Friday, in addition to unveiling “Black Lives Matter Plaza,” honoring the national movement aimed at combating systemic racism and police killings of black Americans, the District also teamed up with local artists to adorn a stretch of 16th Street NW in front of the White House in giant yellow lettering bearing the group’s name.
But the local DC chapter of Black Lives Matter completely rejected the move by the mayor:
The D.C. chapter of the Black Lives Matter global network quickly rejected the plaza name and street painting as “performative.” The group accused D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser of attempting to distract from “her active counter organizing to our demands,” which include a reduction of the city’s police budget and the reinvestment of those funds in other community priorities.
Politico notes why Bowser may have chosen to do this:
While it’s not abnormal for the city to adopt new ceremonial names for streets around the District, such treatment is typically reserved for jabs at despotic foreign governments.
I have no doubt this is true, as the radical left constantly claims Trump is some sort of despot or totalitarian, when it couldn’t be further from the truth. But it’s also to ‘enshrine’ the false narrative against what really happened in Lafayette Square.
These people are despicable.