A spokesperson for DC Mayor Muriel Bowser confirmed by the NBC Washington that Bowsery will eliminate black lives is the fact that the plaza and the “black life” lightly painted. No timeline is still for changes, but the street art will be replaced by a DC students performed.
Bowser said he made the decision for many days ago. If pressed why, he said it was fairly saying that the White House didn’t like.
In 2020, the two blocks of straths on the 16th Street NW north of the White House were appointed that the black lives of Plaza, who operated the protests in Minneapolis, who moved protests around the country, including the district.
Bowser reveals ground mural on June 5 of the year. It was given about a year ago, but the mural was replaced, and Bowser announced the new mural a permanent installation of October 2021.
It is not immediately clear when traffic patterns change.
On Monday, Republican Rep. Andrew Clyde in Georgia identified law that, when passed, force the bowser to change the black lives of life causing plaza or not lose federal funds for DC
The bill says the district should name two-block fixes on 16th Street NW to Liberty Website and Documents New Name “Black Life” Yulan Lives.
If it does not change, “some dividend funds are uncontrollable from the district, according to the bill.
Bowser said he did not support the revision of the Liberty Plaza area.
Clyde said in a statement on Wednesday: “I am very happy that within a day to introduce my Bill Plaza, my focus has been able to make the plans of America, and I will keep my efforts until BLM Plaza officially lost for good. “
Clyde, representing the 9th district of Georgia, has a historical diving of DC activities. In 2022, the Congressman suggested to eliminate the rule of the home rule, which allows the district to manage himself. It was in 1973, it created the Government branches of the DC and the DC Council.
This is not the first time Clyde suggests scraping black life thing Plaza.
“The fact that the city spent nearly $ 5 million in this is a remarkable waste of money. And then to keep it, another waste of money,” he told the day to day call in a 2024 interview. “So, honestly, the road should return in the way it is, which is a public full public, and the black life that matters is necessary to say.”
In a statement that Bowser was released on Tuesday, he said, “The mural inspired people and helped our unaccounted work.
