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Protest signs and artwork on the Black Lives Matter Memorial Fence, Date: 28 November 2020
Protest signs and posters on the Black Lives Matter Memorial Fence, located on the north side of Lafayette Park in Washington D.C.
There is an image of the Memorial Fence and the Washington Monument. Behind it there are a bike, chairs, coolers, protesters, and bags that are in front of the fence. There are people are in front of the fence and one is holding a poster protesting. Multiple posters read “Stop Killing Us” “Pay A Black Woman Today” “Black Lives Matter” “Resist “We are the Majority” “Black Power” “Defeat White Supremacy” “Sex Is Great But Have You Ever Fucked The System” “ Fuck Your Fence “ We See Another Black Man Murdered” Imagine Justice” “Just Love” “Beware of the Dog” “Black Trans Lives Matter” “Trump Is A Danger To Us All” “White silence Fuels Domestic [illegible]” “#DefundMPD EndSARS” “Fuck Your Fence” “Join Campaign Zero” “#Say Their Names” “White Supremacy is Deadly” “State of Injustice” “Protect Democracy From GOP” “Jesus knows Black Lives Need More Than Thoughts & Prayers”. There is also a Mexican flag hanging from the stoplight and a flag that reads “Fuck Trump.” There is a poster with a drawing of two black power fists raised and Colin Kaepernick taking a knee. There is a mask of Donald Trump with a Hitler mustache drawn on and a drawing of Breonna Taylor.
Multiple posters read “Breonna Taylor” “Say Their Names” “Back Lives Matter Matter Matter” “Say His Name” “Bring Our Soldiers Back” “Solidarity Not Sympathy” “The People Have Spoken!!” “If Your Religious Beliefs Oppose Contraception, Don’t Use It” “Black Power Matters” “Racial Justice = Climate Justice” “Class Dismissed Betsy!! #OnBehalfOfALLTeachers” “Divided We Fall.”
Many posters read “Black Trans Lives Matter” and the posters are in the colors of the transgender flag or the American flag.
Some flowers have been placed on the fence themselves.
There is a painting that shows a cityscape and there are three hammers on top of each other that are held by black hands. These hammers are breaking a police badge that is cracked open and reveals an American dollar bill.
There is a poster that is painted like an upside-down American flag that has two shadow hands that are painted on it.
A poster that is falling down reads “I went to John Marshall Elem. School 50 yrs. Ago with the Day twins. 20 years before Sandra Day O’Connor was appointed to the Supreme Court.”
Multiple posters read Black Lives Matter Matter Matter” and “Eyes Open”. The second poster is a lavender color and an image of an eye in the middle with a teardrop as the pupil and circles extending outwards from the eye.
A poster reads “Environmental Justice because Black Lives Matter
There is a poster that reads “Black Women’s Lives Matter #SayHerName” and around the border of the poster are the names of women who have been victims of police brutality and it reads “Sandra Bland – Breonna Taylor – Shelly Frey – Kendra Ja[illegible] – Kayla [illegible] – Tanisha Anderson – Michelle Cusseaux – Alberta Spruill – Rekia Boyd – Sharmel Edwards – LaTanya Haggerty – Gabriella Nevarez – Shantel Davis – Malissa Williams – Miriam Carey”
There is a cardboard poster that reads “No Justice No Peace” with “Justice” and “Peace” painted in red to stand out and has two black power fists painted on it.
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Protest signs and artwork on the Black Lives Matter Memorial Fence, Date: 31 October 2020
Protest signs and posters on the Black Lives Matter Memorial Fence, located on the north side of Lafayette Park in Washington D.C.
There is a spray painted fist that reads "JUSTICE" on the side of the hand. A poster that reads "EVERYBODY OUT! Whether Trump tries to steal the election or Biden wins and tries to continue Trump's policies, we can get out in the streets together and stop them. Everybody out! For resources, tactics, and updates: cwc.im/EverybodyOut" It has an image of the US Capital upside down with people falling from it onto the street of Washington D.C. that show protestors holding a sign that reads "THEY ALL MUST GO".
There is a horizontal shot of a part of the fence with multiple posters and in front of it is a headshot of Trump that has a Hitler mustache drawn on and a poster underneath which reads " Black, Trans, Woman's, Queer, Disabled Lives Matter! White silence is violence! The top of the poster reads All Black Lives Matter.
There are multiple posters that read “No Justice No Peace” Next to this poster are two photos of Michael Marshall and reads “November 2016…Rest in Power” as well as Bryan Overstreet reads “April 2015…Rest in Power”. Underneath this is a poster which reads “Black Trans Lives Matter printed on a trans flag background. There is another poster that reads “Black Lives Matter = Abolish The Police” with drawings of three pigs crossed out with a red X. Under this poster is one that reads “Protect Black Woman with a drawn gold crown and next to this is a poster which reads “Fuck Donald Trump” with Trump drawn as a pig.
There is a photo of a panoramic view of the BLM memorial fence showing many posters and BLM protestors in front of the Washington Monument with a bright orange sweatshirt hung up above the fence. -
anti racistBlack Incarcerated Lives MatterBlack Lives MatterBlack Lives Matter Memorial Fence...15 moreProtest signs and artwork on the Black Lives Matter Memorial Fence, Date: 26 October 2020
Protest signs and posters on the Black Lives Matter Memorial Fence, located on the north side of Lafayette Park in Washington D.C.
There is a photo with multiple posters that reads “Defund Police and Make Cops Hold Bake…” with the rest of the poster ripped off. Another one reads “Shut Down Trump”, “No Justice No Peace” with other words written on this poster. “Fuck Racism”, with a sticker that reads “Americans Against Racism” and another poster that reads “3 cops were caught on camera fantasizing about killing black people” and the name on this poster is “Michael Kevin Piner” and on the rest of the poster are are quotes from the video. There is a photograph of Jacqueline Salyers that reads “Rest in Power”.
There is a close up shot of a poster from a quote of Susan Collins (R-ME) [Republican of Maine] and it reads “I do not believe he [Trump] is the president that we need at this time in our country's history I believe that... he is antithetical to the values of the Republican Party.”
There is a black poster with yellow spray paint that reads “BLM”. The poster next to it reads “While Vietnam Veterans served their country... Trump served up another golf ball... and when he got older he served himself to your tax bailout to keep it in business... a self-serving type!” And above these posters are multiple photos of those who lost their lives to police brutality, and they read either “#SayHerName” or “Rest in Power”.
There is a poster that reads “Black Lives Matter Black Trans Lives Matter Black Incarcerated Lives Matter” next to this is a photo Ruth Bader Ginsburg that reads “RBG I dissent”. Underneath this is a poster of Timothy Russell who lost his life to police brutality. Under this photograph is a poster that reads “It is not enough to be non-racist we must be Antiracist” which is a quote by Angela Davis. There is a drawing of the US Capital that also has what looks to be a bill that reads “AntiRacist Policies” and next to this is a poster of a trans flag that reads “Black Trans Lives Matter” on top of it.
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Protest signs and artwork on the Black Lives Matter Memorial Fence, Date: 24 October 2020
Protest signs and posters on the Black Lives Matter Memorial Fence, located on the north side of Lafayette Park in Washington D.C.
There are flowers on the fence which is arranged to spell out the word “VOTE.” It is made up of red roses, white peonies, white daisies, and white mums. The red roses outline the white flowers. Underneath this are arrangements of flowers that are made-up of purple and blue snapdragons and ferns. There are red roses and red eucalyptus that frame the word “VOTE.” Then there is a poster that reads “@SweetRootVillage #SweetRootVillage #VotingMatters” beside the flowers.
There's a QR code and underneath it reads “Free From Slavery Not Free From Racism” and the code leads to a book on Amazon by Vince Cowan that is titled “Free From Slavery Not Free From Racism.”
There is a cardboard poster which reads “Racism Is Small Dick Energy” underneath this is a black skateboard without wheels ,and it reads “Andy Roy” [a professional skateboarder] “Bad Geese” with an image of Woody Woodpecker and it's heavily used and it's standing up next to a Biden Harris 2020 campaign poster.
There is a piece of paper that has been painted and blended with green, orange, brown, purple, and yellow and it reads “NO Justice NO Peace.” The top of it has been ripped off slightly but it's now preserved in a plastic folio that's held with twine.
There is a picture that reads “Black Lives Matter” and it's surrounded by paintings of pink and yellow flowers on a black background. Underneath this is a white canvas with a black glitter heart that reads “It could all be simple”. There is a blue line that goes through the bottom half of the heart and there is a rose that is in front of this canvas. Next to this is a cardboard poster and reads names of those who lost their lives to police brutality. Some of the names read “Steven Eugene, Victor Steen, Sean Bell, Aiyana Stanta, Dante, Kimani John, Jordan.”
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Protest signs and artwork on the Black Lives Matter Memorial Fence, Date: 23 October 2020
Protest signs and posters on the Black Lives Matter Memorial Fence, located on the north side of Lafayette Park in Washington D.C.
There is a laminated paper that was written by Elisheva Wyns (9 years old) and it reads “Wy[sic] is ther [sic] so much hate? PePole [sic] should not be shamd [sic] of the way ther [sic] skin coler [sic] is, they should be proud of is [sic]! We need to Love each other, as the Bible says (Love your naber [sic] as your self). We neeb [sic] to love each othe [sic] okay! Blak [sic] Lives Matter! You got that! Pray that PePole [sic] Who hate Black PePole [sic] will soon love Will stop hateing [sic] them.” Here is a drawing of two hands where the palms are facing each other representing a black hand and a white hand and they are encapsulated by a pink heart. Next to this is a raindrop with a face that is depicted as saying “Come to gether [sic]!” And a heart under this in a speech bubble.
There is an outline of a peace sign that is made up of string and there are strips of fabric that are tied around the peace sign with names of those who have lost their lives to police brutality and others that reads “Black Lives Matter.” A deflated balloon is attached to the fence and above this is a sign that reads “Their Lives Mattered.” A smaller cardboard poster reads “Don’t HOLD your VOTE… We said: Black Lives Matter, We know: All Lives Matter, Never said: Only Black Lives Matter, But if you Hold your Vote: None of [illegible] Matters.” With the writing on this poster being faded out.
A white poster that reads “No Barrett, No Trump, No KKK, No Fascist USA, Fuck Your White Supremacy.” The last statement is written with white ink and has a black background to contrast with the white of the poster. Underneath this is a picture of the white house that is taped onto the poster.
There are multiple posters that read “Honor Her Dying Wish MotherFucker”, “McConell: Relief to People in need, Not Black Checks to Billionaires”, “Vote Bunker Baby OUT” www.subversiveware.com your hatred Racial Slurs and Ignorance do NOT define me... “#Nation in Distress #JacobBlane #NativeLivesMatter #DumpTrump #fuckthe Police #DemilitarizethePolice #Antifa #BLMSolidarity # #NoJusticeNoPeace #KnowJusticeKnowPeace #Rules of Engagement #EscalationofForce Respect our Existence or Expect our Resistance.” There is a red poster that reads “WHAT CAN I DO? Donate, act, and (please) VOTE” which is on a red posterboard. There is a deflated balloon of Trump which is on a poster and It reads “#BabyGate” then has makeshift bars that read “Bunker Baby” that are on the balloon.
There was a silhouette of Donald Trump that is facing to the left and inside the silhouette reads “WRONG” in white letters that contrast the silhouette.
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Protest signs and artwork on the Black Lives Matter Memorial Fence, Date: 20 October 2020
Protest signs and posters on the Black Lives Matter Memorial Fence, located on the north side of Lafayette Park in Washington D.C.
There is a small cardboard cutout of Donald Trump that reads “Family Separator #tinytrump.” There is a pink sticker that has the black power fist at the top and flowers surround it. There are two hands below it and they are holding up two weight scales that have a gavel and a dove in them. This sticker reads “No Justice No Peace No Racist Police” This sticker was created by @citizenruthbrand.
There is a view from the ground that shows the fence and people walking on the sidewalk and protesting in the street. On the ground is a line of papers that are black and white printed photos of photos. They read “The Doors are Closing on Evil. White Supremacy is Terrorism” “The Moral Finder of This Country is Torn to Shreds” “Trump’s Life is a Waste of Matter” Trumps a Liar” and the rest are unable to be read properly.
Another shot of the fence shows two flags that are standing up against the fence and one is a black flag that has “Trump” on it with a black circle background that has a red circle with a line going through it. The second black flag next to it is folded over and has “Trump” on it with the communist sickle and hammer replacing the “U” and has a red circle with a line going through it.
There are many posters that reads “Trump Digs His Own Grave” “Trump Lies All The Time” “Trump is Guilty” “Arrest Trump” “None of this is Normal Stop the Gaslighting” “ACAB” “Stop ICE!” “Stop Murdering Black People” “Don’t Force Your Dick on U.S.a [sic]” “Outbreak? Crime Scene? Or Both? Vote Them Out” “Save Our Kids” “votethem out! VoteThem Out!! VOTETHEM OUT!!!” “Black Trans Lives Matter” “Silence is Betrayal” “Yeah The Black Guy Did It” “State of Injustice” “My Body is NOT A Political Playground” “America has had 400 years to make it RIGHT BLM” “Loser” and “Tool of Russia Under Master Putin [-] Threatening Rotten Unscrupulous Murderous Pandemic-Panderer” “No Barrett No Trump No KKK No Fascist USA Fuck Your White Supremacy” “State of Obstruction” “The Trump Hotel is a Crime Scene” “The Trump Hotel is a Breeding Ground of Corruption” “We can’t repeal out pre-existing conditions” “KKK in Blue” “Justice for those Killed” “Black Lives Matter.” And a poster that is on black cardboard with “BLM” that was spraypainted on with yellow spray paint.
A black poster with pink cursive handwriting reads “fuck Trump” and has hearts drawn around it. Another poster that has the silhouette of the Grim Reaper on a yellow background with Mitch McConnell’s face on it reads “Moral Monday Caravan on McConnell” and “STOP McConnell’s Meanness, Mayhem & Misery Pass a Full & Just Stimulus Package!” Another black poster has different colored words and reads “Fuck You GOP!” “Gray Old Peckers.”
There is a black poster that reads “The Silent Unknown” which seems to be a poem and has an image of someone in red with their hands up and head down.
There are multiple pictures of those who lost their lives to police brutality and they have “Rest in Power” or “#SayHerName” and some of them have the victims' names on them. The legible names are “Pamela Turner May 13, 2019” “Bryan Overstreet April 2015” “Cory Levert Tanner Aug 13, 2014” “Zikarious Flint March 30, 2014” “Kiorte Spencer Februrary 26, 20[..]” and “Mathew Ajibade Jan 1, 2015”.
There is a cardboard poster of the Monopoly man who is holding a police officer and it reads “Black Lives Matter R.I.P. George Floyd Breonna Taylor Atatiana Jefferson Freddie Gray” it further has “marcmoneyart.com” and “@marcmoneyart”.
A cardboard poster that has black silhouettes of protesters holding names of people who have been killed by police brutality (Sandra Bland, Breonna Taylor, Freddie Gray, Tony McDade, D’Quan Young, and George Floyd) reads “All I wanna say is that they don’t really care about us.”
A poster that reads “Justice for Queen Breonna” has a portrait of Breonna Taylor with a crown on and there is a painted portrait of Trayvon Martin that reads “Trayvon.”
There is a painted portrait of Vanessa Guillén with the Mexican flag behind her (green, white, and red) that reads “Not one more.”
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Protest signs and artwork on the Black Lives Matter Memorial Fence, Date: 15 October 2020
Protest signs and posters on the Black Lives Matter Memorial Fence, located on the north side of Lafayette Park in Washington D.C.
There is a lone poster on the fence that is torn in half and reads “Where Was the NRA When…[rest of the poster] Philando was MURDERED” which is on the ground. There is a poster which reads “Justice for Queen Breonna” and there is a portrait of Breonna Taylor with a crown. There are small pieces of paper that spell out “Defend Black Lives” Each letter in the word “defend” is in different colors – red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and then pink respectively. The rest of the statement is in yellow.
There are posters around this that read “Black Lives, Dreams + Futures Matter Today + Every Day Stand Together” “NO Justice NO Peace!”
There is a ripped poster that reads “If you are [illegible] You are Complicit!”
There are two posters on the ground that reads “Silence is Compliance #BlackLivesMatter” and “Black Lives Matter.” The other posters on the fence reads “Good Cops Don’t Exist” and “This building is the center of FREEDOM and DEMOCRACY, TRUMP, has turned the White House into a cesspool of COVID. Vote Democrat.”
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Protest signs and artwork on the Black Lives Matter Memorial Fence, Date: 14 October 2020
Protest signs and posters on the Black Lives Matter Memorial Fence, located on the north side of Lafayette Park in Washington D.C.
There is a pastel yellow building that is opposite the Black Lives Matter Memorial Fence and is boarded up. There are painted images that are on the plywood that is covering the windows. These images are all spray painted on the plywood and one is the sunrise (or sunset), one has a woman with a mask with her hands in front of her and looks like she is praying. Another image has the side portrait of a man and there is text that reads “Lve” and “Pinder Story.”
There is a black ripped poster and underneath it is a poster that is pink, purple, and blue, that has a woman in the middle with her fist raised and holding a baby. The woman is in a circle and there is text that reads “Today I am Free • Today I am Strong” There are broken chains on the edge of the poster intertwined with flowers and roots. There is a dove at the top and text that reads “You’re wrong about me I’m a sister and a daughter [;] A mother, aunt, grandmother [;] Not a criminal Not a statistic [;] I have a life I have a dream [;] I am a queen a [illegible]…”
There are multiple posters on a wall that reads “Is My Son Next ??????” “Fuck MPD” (which is spray painted in yellow on a black background) #Black Power” “Black Lives Matter “Algeria for BLM” “Who do you protect? Who do you serve?” “Be an ENEMY to the OPPRESSORS and a HELPER to the OPPRESSED - Imam Ali (as)”
There are different paintings that are on pieces of paper that are on the wall and other ripped posters. One poster reads “We need more Peace Life Love” There is a drawn peace sign in blue, a green tree and a pink heart respectively over the words, “peace” “life” and “love”.
There is a poster that reads “The Palm Collective” and is on a black poster but has been spraypainted the colors of the rainbow with a symbol on it.
There are two portraits in a black and grey color scheme, and it has yellow and green in the background and seem to be representative of traditional African people.
A poster reads “Abolish Prisons” and it has two hands that are breaking cell bars with a red circle with a line through it
Another poster reads “It’s not Right or Left its Life or Death.”
There is a poster that looks like a rendition of Mount Rushmore but has the heads of Martin Luther King Jr., Frederick Douglass, Malcom X, Barack Obama, and Nelson Mandela. The poster reads “VOTE” and on the bottom it reads “They Sacrificed.” There is a green handprint on the wall underneath this poster and a paper that has a QR code that leads to a website that lets people register to vote.
There is a poster that reads “No Justice No Peace” and has the black power fist raised that is in the middle of a circle on the poster. -
Protest signs and artwork on the Black Lives Matter Memorial Fence, Date: 06 October 2020
Protest signs and posters on the Black Lives Matter Memorial Fence, located on the north side of Lafayette Park in Washington D.C.
Multiple posters read “Solidarity” “Silence is Compliance #Black Lives Matter” “Good Cops Dont [sic] Exist” “This is Some Bullshit” and a photograph of Trae Darson. A poster reads “BLEACH 10/4/2020 [then Arabic text is written under this] WE the people of color and colors [;] Demand to be treated Fair + Lovely [with ‘+ Love’ crossed out] You suggest US to ingest Bleach [‘] You suggest that we become white inside, Dead inside Kill ourselves, Colonize ourselves [;] WE Demand that you, Decolonize your mind, our systems, our stories [;] Try to Bleach us. But our Fabric, our thread out contributions. ARE forever ARE here to STAY.”
There is a piece of paper that is on a wall and the same image is repeated six times. It reads “Never Great” and has an image of the Statute of Liberty in front of two American flag.
On a section of a wall multiple posters reads “Black Lives are sacred” “Black Lesbians: You are Loved ” “De-Criminalize Addiction Health issues are not Crimes. Fuck the War on Drugs” and there is a post-it note that reads “Black Lives Matters”
On a section of the fence, some posters read “Abolish the Police” “ACAB Only good pig is a DEAD pig!” “Stop Murdering Black People” “America has 400 years to make it RIGHT BLM” “Save our kids”
A poster reads “No Justice No Peace [;] Greg Hall Jr. [;] January 14, 2014 [;] Ft. Pierce, Florida”. Another poster reads “01/07/1977 [;] On February 7, 1995[?] Antonio Lamont [illegible] was shot 7 times in Washington DC by a 6th District Police Officer Kristopher Pay[illegible]. He was shot 6 times in the back and once in the face at close range. We Matter!!! His Life Matter!!! Justice for Tony.” And a poster that reads “Loser” with an arrow pointing to the bottom right.
Then there is a panoramic shot of the fence with the Washington Monument in the background.
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Protest signs and artwork on the Black Lives Matter Memorial Fence, Date: 05 October 2020
Protest signs and posters on the Black Lives Matter Memorial Fence, located on the north side of Lafayette Park in Washington D.C.
Multiple posters read “NO Justice NO Peace” “Black Lives, Dreams + Futures Matter. Today + Every Day Stand Together – Jen” “If You Ar[illegible] Anti-R[illegible] You Are Complicit!” Then there are photographs of victims of police brutality and they read “#SayHerName” or “Rest in Power.”
Another poster reads “No Justice No Peace #saytheirnames.” There is a car that has posters taped to the side of it and they read “Infecting America since January 20, 2017 tRumpVIRUS COVID-45 trumpDemic” “Trump N the Wall” which has an image of the middle finger and then a Ku Klux Klan hood that reads “tRump.”
And another poster on the car reads “Trump’s a Dick” and the “u” is replaced with a hammer and sickle with Soviet Union imagery.
Then there is a panoramic shot of the fence with the Washington Monument in the background with a police car driving in front.