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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: 08 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 “America BE Better” “We Can Do Better” “Join Armenia in War Against Turkish Terror” “If You’re Not Outraged Ur [sic] Not Paying Attention,” “White Guilt is your conscience speaking to you. Please Listen” with specific words underlined in red. A poster in the image of a trans flag reads “Black Trans Lives Matter.” A black poster reads “Black Fathers Matter.” A cluster of posters read “Justice para Vanessa Guillén” “JUSTICE Vanessa” “Gracias Latina Valiente”, which has a flower that is drawn on the poster. There is a poster that reads, “How Could You “LIE” To Us About LIFE + DEATH.”
There is a photograph of Trae Darson and next to this is a poster that reads “The People That Learned.” And there is an image of pink hearts and a circle that looks to be stylized butterflies and underneath this reads “To Love.” Which was done by Clara in 2020.
There is a stained glass window on the King Emmanuel Baptist Church that has burn marks underneath it and on the window next to it is a white spray-painted black power hand on the notice board for the church.
Multiple posters read “Solidarity” “Silence is Compliance #Black Lives Matter” “Good Cops Dont [sic] Exist” “This is Some Bullshit”
There is a poster that made ‘Trump’ into an acronym and there is a word that follows each letter of his name the first column reads “Trivial [;] Ridiculous[;] Unimportant [;]Meaningless [;]President” and the second column reads “Twisted [;] Repulsive [;] Unscrupulous [;] Molesting [;] Pussy-grabber.” The top of the poster reads “Black Lives Matter [;] Dump Trump [;]Acronymania [;] Dump Trump [;] Black Lives Matter” while at the bottom of the poster reads “Dump Trump, Dump the Chump[;] Black Lives Matter[;] Dump Trump, Dump the Chump.”
One poster reads “This building is of the center of FREEDOM and DEMOCRACY. TRUMP has turned the White House into a cesspool of COVID. Vote Democrat”. There is a multicolored poster that reads “Black Lives Matter”
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.”
On a pillar, there are two posters. The first poster is white and reads [from top to bottom, left to right] “Black Lives Matter [;] End Police Brutality [;] Am I Next?!? [;] I Cant Breath!! [sic] [;] Caution!! [;] No Justice No Peace [;] Whats not a crime bing [sic] black say it louder for the whites in the back! [;] Dont Shoot!! [;] Women Rights! [;]” In the middle of the poster are names of victims of police brutality and short statements which read “Why me!” “Respect!” “Hate” “Please!” “Say there [sic] name!” “Sir” “Color!” “This before you shoot!” “We need respect” “Pain!”.
On a wall multiple posters read “End the School-To-Prison Pipeline #BLM #Police Free Schools” “Hate And Fear Must Be Answered With Love And Hope” “Black Lives Matter” “Palestine Will Be Free” “Stop Police Brutality Against Black Lives Defund And Reform the Popo” The rest of the posters have been spray painted over but there is a small piece of paper over the spray paint that reads, “Black Lives Still Matter Some People Have Moved on But Not Us!”
There are multiple symbols on the poster too such as a black power fist with “B.L.M.” on the fist itself, and a heart that has “Pls” and “Rip” inside the heart, there is a colorful flower as well.
Where the black poster reads “Black Lives Matter”, and “Trans” is written on top of it in green paint. The poster has a drawing of a hand that is making the peace symbol and the earth is in the palm and there are black, red, white, and yellow rays coming from the hand. There is gold writing on the poster that reads “On August 13, 2020 MPD rounded up a group of about 40 protesters & detained them. They dropped ALL charges but kept cell phones & photo cameras. What About our Property? #WAP.”
On the pillar itself there is writing that reads “Don’t Tell Women Wha [sic] To Do” -
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. -
Protest signs and artwork on the Black Lives Matter Memorial Fence, Date: 03 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 map of Washington D.C. that has three stencils of Donald Trump’s head spray painted on it and it reads “LIES” which is coming from his mouth and “COVID!” underneath the heads.
Some posters read “Where Was the NRA when Philando was MURDERED?” This is next to a painted portrait of Trayvon Martin that reads “Trayvon” and there is a poster that is the District of Columbia Bicycle Map and has a stencil of Uncle Sam and reads “Hope Yes.” Then there is a written note that reads “ USA ’s Hope Hicks” Another District of Columbia Bicycle Map has a stencil of Uncle Sam and it reads “HOPE This is for you, California.”
There are cardboard posters that read “Racism is Small Dick Energy” and there is a black power fist on an individual cardboard poster. Another poster that has caution tape on it reads “NO JUSTICE” There is another poster that reads “My Daddy is a HERO My daddy is not a Loser” And there are four images of Heath Robinson or his daughter. Heath Robinson seems to have served the National Guard and passed away.
There is a poster that reads “Rest in Power Bradley Blackshire February 22, 2019” and an image of him.
Another poster reads “Red or Blue They’ll Still Kill You” and next to this is a poster that reads “Ensign Jesse Brown Black Lives Mattered…in the Korean War.” With a photograph of Jesse Brown when he served in the Korean War.
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Protest signs and artwork on the Black Lives Matter Memorial Fence, Date: 21 August 2020
Protest signs and posters on the Black Lives Matter Memorial Fence, located on the north side of Lafayette Park in Washington D.C.
A cardboard sign near the fence reads "HANDS UP DON'T SHOOT!!!!! #2020." Another sign presents various adjectives to describe Donal J. Trump such as "Tense," "Rigid," Reactionary," "Unusable," and "Prick." -
Protest Signs and Artwork on the Black Lives Matter Memorial Fence, Date: 15 June 2020
Protest signs and posters on the Black Lives Matter Memorial Fence, located on the north side of Lafayette Park in Washington D.C.
In these images, some of the signs read "Black Lives Matter Fuck Racists," "In Memory of Breonna Taylor," "Baby Gate," and "Black Lawyers for Black Lives."