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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: 22 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 and there is a bike, chairs, coolers, and bags that are in front of the fence. 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 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” “Jesus knows Black Lives Need More Than Thoughts & Prayers”. There is also a Mexican flag hanging from the stoplight
A poster reads “Baby Trump, Your’e [sic] coming out of the Whitehouse [sic] Don’t forget first Vice President KAMALA Harris And President Biden is coming”
Multiple posters read “Young Black Lives Old Black Lives Gay Black Lives Trans Black Lives Non-Binary Black Lives Matter” and “Diversity Is The Future” “Black Trans Lives Matter” “Is anyone really surprised that DONALD TRUMP is trying to force himself on America after she said no!” “Abolition requires that we CHANGE one thing which is EVERYTHING” “Thank You Stacey Abrams and Black Voters Everywhere” “Breonna Taylor’s boyfriend did not shoot at police…..he shot at someone trying to break into his home” “57% of white people STILL voted for Trump ?!?!?!?!” “We Can’t Repeal Our Pre-Existing Conditions” “11/06/2020 You’re Fired! Get out of MY House!” “Reclaiming The People’s House” “Injustice Anywhere Is A Threat To Justice Everywhere” “We DUMPed [sic] TRUMP!” “You Will Never Get Away With This” “Person Woman Man VOTE Biden Harris” “Mitch Don’t Forget Essential Workers” “Thank You Jim Clyburn Stacy Abrams! African Americans saved this country Again! Thank you!”
There is a poster with the black power fist on it and a rainbow drawn on the top right corner and a gold heart in the fist and it reads “All lives can’t matter until black’s minorily [sic] lives matter too ! Black Lives Matter [;] It takes more eff[illegible]”
A poster has a spray-painted image of a red rose on it and written over it reads “We’re all in this together ! Vote. Vote. Vote!! The Duty of a True Patriot is to Protect County from it’s Government!”
There is a green poster that has a silver spray-painted pyramid on it and a red spray-painted eye on top of it which seems to represent the Illuminati.
A poster reads “This Daughter of an Immigrant Dyke Voted Your White Supremacist Ass Out” and the word “dyke” is filled in with rainbow colors.
There is a poster that has a portrait of a black woman without a face and there is a thought bubble that reads “#SayHerName” and behind the portrait are names of women who died because of police brutality. Some names that are able to be seen read “Tanisha Anderson [illegible]arleena Lyles[;] Sandra [;] McKenna P[illegible] Turner [illegible] Gabriella [;] Miriam Carey [;] Shelly Frey [;] Malissa [illegible] [;] Shantel Davis [;] [illegible] [;] Sherese Fra[illegible] [;] Breonna Taylor”
A poster has an image of two hands reaching out to each other and it reads “Stop Separating Families #AbolishICE [;] What if it was your family?”
A poster reads “Sin Justicia No Habra Paz which translates into “Without Justice, there will not be Peace” and there is a drawing of a police car that is on fire.
A poster reads in Russian “в отставку Трамп Resign!” which translates to “Resign Trump Resign”
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Protest signs and artwork on the Black Lives Matter Memorial Fence, Date: 21 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 a poster that has a black power fist with pink, blue, green, and purple and reads “Trans Gay Nonbinary Immigrant Disabled Neurodivergent Mothers Fathers Elderly Afro-Latinx Children [;] Black Lives will always Matter! Love Trumps Hate”
There is an image of a fence that only has two posters on it and it reads ‘Democracy is Stronger Than Trump” and "Trump Hates Democracy” but there are zip ties on the fence that show there were other posters or items attached to the fence previously. There is a doily-like collar to represent Ruth Bader Ginsberg as this is similar to the lace collar that she wore while she was on the United States Supreme Court.
There is an origami bird on the ground in front of the fence and the posters read “people build peace” “We See Another Black Man Murdered” “Black Trans Lives Matter”
There is a photograph of Tamir Rice and it’s within a plastic cover and it reads “Tamir Rice Nov 22, 2014 [;] Rest In Power”.
There is a photograph of Sheneque Proctor and it’s within a plastic cover and it reads “Sheneque Proctor Nov 1, 2014. There is an image of Greg Hill Jr on a poster that is a memorial poster and it reads “Never Forget [;] Greg Hill Jr [;] Sunrise 10-28-83 [;] Sunset 01-14-14 [;] Celebrating LIFE the day you past away” There are other posters that read “#SayHerName”.
There is an image of Mussolini and Donald Trump’s head has replaced Mussolini’s and it reads “Dimestore Mussolini? [;] Concerned.” And there are words spraypainted on the poster that reads “Toxic Loser”
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Protest signs and artwork on the Black Lives Matter Memorial Fence, Date: 21 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 cardboard poster behind the fence which reads “America wants PEACE” and there are two printed peace hand signs that are on either side of the statement.
There is a large sticker that is on the bottom of a gray light post of a black and white stylized photograph of Donald Trump that is on a trash bag. The bottom of the sticker reads “#TRASHTRUMP” and “TRASHTRUMP.COM”
There are three small stones that have been painted and each read different thing. One stone is painted red and has white letters that reads “There can be no love w/o Justice”. The one to the right of it is painted black and the words reads “Be STONE” with “Be” painted white and “stone” painted blue. The last rock is painted blue with white clouds, then yellow and then green which reads “you stand on stolen land No One [sic] is illegal here,” where “you stand on stolen land” is in the top part of the rock which is the sky, “No One” is in the yellow section and “is illegal here” is in the green section of the rock.
Then there is just the brim of a red hat, and the base part of the hat looks to have been burned off.
There is a sticker of an egg yolk that has a minimalist caricature of Donald Trump’s face on it which is on a black background.
There are multiple cardboard posters that read “Stop Murdering Black People”, “Do the Right Thing” “Stop Ice!” “ACAB Only good pig is a DEAD pig!” “Don’t force your Dick on U.S.a [sic]” “None of this is Normal Stop the Gaslighting” “The Biggest gang in every city is the police #ORGANIZEORDIE Black Power Matters Fuck 12” “Enough is Enough” AmeriKKKa” “#SayHerName” Without That Badge you’re a Bitch and a half. (ACAB).”
There is a white mask that reads “I matter.”
There is a poster that reads “Do the Right Thing!” That is colored in blue and red letters and has the black fist sign next to it.
There is a drawn portrait of Breonna Taylor with a crown on her head, and it reads “Justice for Queen Breonna.”
There are multiple photographs of those who have lost their life to police brutality. On the top of the photographs reads “Rest in Power.” Those that are able to be read are “Michael Ealy” “Aaron Roberts” “Cornelius Fredrick May 1, 2020” and “Sald Joaquin”. There is a white poster which reads “David ‘BBQ Man’ McAtee, 53 YO Louisville, KY Chef Community Pillar Killed by the same police he’s fed for free June 1st, 2020.”
There is a painting of Trayvon Martin as a portrait and it reads “Trayvon.”