https://nypost.com/2020/06/05/dc-mayor-has-black-lives-matter-painted-
near-white-house/
Washington, DC, Mayor Muriel Bowser on Friday had “Black Lives Matter”
painted in large yellow letters on the street that leads to the White
House, and also designated the square in front of Lafayette Park as Black
Lives Matter Plaza.
“There was a dispute this week about whose street this is,” John
Falcicchio, Bowser’s chief of staff, wrote in a tweet.
“Mayor Bowser wanted to make it abundantly clear that this is DC’s street
and to honor demonstrators who [were] peacefully protesting on Monday
evening,” he added, referring to protesters demonstrating over the May 25
death of George Floyd at the hands of Minnesota cops.
Bowser, a Democrat who assumed office in January 2015 and has clashed with
President Trump over the feds’ aggressive response to the protests, also
tweeted out a video of the street shot from above.
City staffers and local artists painted the large block letters on 16th
Street NW, and the work takes up two blocks on 16th — which leads to both
Lafayette Square and the White House — between K and H streets.
Local artist Rose Jaffe said she and others joined city work crews about 4
a.m., the Washington Post reported.
Later, a city worker hung a “Black Lives Matter Plz NW” sign at the corner
of 16th and H streets NW.
Bowser, who is African American, watched silently as onlookers cheered and
the song “Rise Up” by Audra Day played.
“In America, you can peacefully assemble,” she told the crowd, the paper
reported.
Bowser later tweeted: “The section of 16th street in front of the White
House is now officially ‘Black Lives Matter Plaza.’”
But the move did not impress DC’s Black Lives Matter chapter.
“This is a performative distraction from real policy changes. Bowser has
consistently been on the wrong side of BLMDC history. This is to appease
white liberals while ignoring our demands. Black Lives Matter means defund
the police,” the group tweeted.
DC’s shadow Sen. Paul Strauss said Bowser had the authority to
unilaterally order the moves, referring to Monday’s crackdown as the
capital’s “Tiananmen Square.”
“Thirty-one years ago troops in Beijing went into Tiananmen Square and
squashed a peaceful protest. And here in 2020 troops came and quashed a
peaceful protest right here and Black Lives Matter Plaza will go down in
our history as our Tiananmen Square,” said Strauss, a Democrat.
“There’s more authority for a mayor elected by our people to rename a
Washington, DC, street than there is to force us to quarter soldiers in
violation of the 3rd Amendment to the Constitution,” he continued.
The amendment reads: “No Soldier shall, in time of peace be quartered in
any house, without the consent of the Owner, nor in time of war, but in a
manner to be prescribed by law.”
“So, anybody can say whatever they want about due process, a
democratically elected mayor, exercising the people’s First Amendment
rights to rename their own street is far more legitimate than anonymous
troops coming in from out of town to dominate their fellow Americans,”
Strauss said.
The moves came days after the Park Police and National Guard troops
removed demonstrators who were protesting outside the White House.
The crowd was dispersed so Trump could walk from the White House to St.
John’s Episcopal Church, which had been damaged by a fire the night
before.
While Bowser and Trump clashed over the use of force, the president
renewed his call for more forceful action against protesters Friday,
citing the crackdown in Minnesota as an example.
“I hope that you also use our National Guard. Call me, we will be ready
with them so fast their heads will spin. We did it in Minneapolis, in
Minnesota, they were ripping that place apart,” he said while delivering
remarks on the positive May jobs report.
“I love it, we had such success there, and they were ripping it apart. I
called the governor and the National Guard went in and in one night it was
over. You do not see the problem in Minnesota at all now, not even a
little bit,” he said.
Bowser earlier Friday had demanded on Twitter that Trump “withdraw all
extraordinary federal law enforcement and military presence from our
city.”
Go ahead President Trump.
Do just that. In a month or so when they are begging for help, if they
are still alive, remind them what they asked for.
Consider moving the Nation's capital city to North Dakota or Wyoming.
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President Trump has boosted the economy, reduced illegal immigration,
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