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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." -
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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 19 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 statement on the fence that was created by small pieces of paper and reads “WE KEEP US SAFE” where “We Keep” is in orange “Us” is in blue and “safe” is in white. There is a poster next to this that reads “Pass the Stimulus.” A poster that reads “VOTE Because Your Friend’s LIFE Could Depend on It.” Which is on a paper bag that was taped over a black poster. A small handwritten note that reads “treat all people the same” with a heart drawn on it.
There is a poster that has the black power fist drawn on it, and another reads “ Being Black in America is Exhausting. Y'all want us to Sing, Dance, Play Football, Shoot Basketball, Be Target Practice and be QUIET. Signed, An Exhausted Black Folk.” Next to this is another black poster that reads “Hey! Ho! Hey! Ho! The Orange Anus Has To Go” in a yellow font with a fist in the middle that is within a circle and four stars on either side of the fist outside the circle. Underneath the fist, is the website which reads “www.subversiveware.com”.
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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: 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: 25 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.
As if parodying election signs there is a white poster which reads “Trump COVID Takes Americas Breath Away! 2020” it has a red outline as well as four stars above and below the text with an infection symbol between the two stars on the top and bottom.
There are three posters, and one reads “This building is of the center of FREEDOM and DEMOCRACY. TRUMP has turned the White House into a cesspool of COVID. Vote Democrat”. Underneath this is an ombré purple and red Biden/Harris campaign poster with white text that reads “Vote! Text Vote to 30330” underneath this reads “Biden Harris”. To the right of this poster reads “McConnell: Relief to People in need, not blank checks to billionaires” which is held up with green and blue tape.
There is a black poster that has the word “Demand” repeatedly spray painted on it and layered on top of this text is blocky white text which reads “Black Lives Matter”. To the right of the text is a photograph of George Floyd's last words combined together in a way to create a headshot of George Floyd himself.
There are four posters on a pillar. The first poster reads “VOTE our lives depend on it!”. Next to it there is another poster that is handwritten and reads “Silence is Violence” with violence captured in a red box and on the far side of the poster are small letters which reads “Silence is complicity”. Underneath this poster is a black poster that reads “Who do you protect?? Black Lives Matter” and then in blue paint over this “ACAB” [All Caps are Bastards]. Underneath this poster are words spray painted on the pillar which starts off as “Is it a coincidence…” and then a poster is taped over the rest of the statement and in green, purple, and gold paint a poster reads “Black Lives Have Always Mattered Let's Act Like It!”
There are three posters on the fence with a cardboard poster that is covered with a lot of tape and reads “Good Trouble” that has been spray painted with black and silver and there's a sticker next to it that reads “Trump/Pence OUT NOW” and it has a website under that which reads Refusefacism.org #OUTNOW!”. There is a poster underneath that reads “Being Black in America is Exhausting. Y'all want us to Sing, Dance, Play Football, Shoot Basketball, Be Target Practice and be QUIET. Signed, An Exhausted Black Folk”. Next to this is an image of old slave shackles that have been shown on a poster and reads “Your Ancestors Have A Message…VOTE!” and the shackles are in the shape of a V for “vote” and then there is a small pink flower in the corner.