DC Mayor Bowser: Section of 16th St. in front of WH is now officially Black Lives Matter Plaza

[highplainsdem]

Her tweet:

Link to tweet

Jim Acosta tweet with photo of new street sign:

Link to tweet

DC just put up a Black Lives Matter street sign just outside Lafayette Park.

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

1. Fuckin' love it!!

[highplainsdem]

5. I do, too!

[highplainsdem]

2. Washington Post tweet and article:

Link to tweet

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/dc-politics/bowser-black-lives-matter-street/2020/06/05/eb44ff4a-a733-11ea-bb20-ebf0921f3bbd_story.html

[montanacowboy]

3. Go Mayor Bowser!

stick it to that sob in the white house

[highplainsdem]

8. She really did stick it to him.

[brer cat]

4. Way to kick trump's ass!

Way to honor those whose lives were lost to racism!

[Hermit-The-Prog]

6. Oh hell yes!

It's even a black sign being installed by a black man!

[ancianita]

7. K & R

[onetexan]

9. Bravo Mayor Bowser!!! What a way to rub it into the Idiot & his rabid enablers!!!

[sheshe2]

10. I am loving this woman! 🥰

[YDogg]

11. Hell to the Yeah

Beautiful and powerful.

[bottomofthehill]

12. tRump will not miss that helicoptering in or out from the White House

[KS Toronado]

14. Pilots will be told to avoid it so as not to upset Hair Twitler

[3Hotdogs]

13. An adjacent street, or one behind the White House, should be named,

"Bunker-boy Boulevard."

That would frost his cookies.

[KS Toronado]

15. Mayor of DC needs this suggestion......LOL

[scarletwoman]

16. If you haven't read the whole WaPo article at the link, then you're missing a very salient point:

The group Black Lives Matter DC reacted to the street painting with criticism of the mayor, saying she should decrease the budget for the D.C. police and “invest in the community.”

Bowser’s proposed budget increases funding for traditional policing while cutting spending on programs to reduce violence through community-based intervention initiatives.

“This is a performative distraction from real policy changes,” the group said on Twitter, adding “Black Lives Matter means defund the police.”

Jaffe, one of the local artists who was painting Friday morning, said she, too, would like Bowser to cut funding for the police department. She said she also would like to see officers express more support for protests, which began a week ago in the District.

“I’m conflicted about doing it. It’s about wanting to reclaim the streets, but I also know that it is a little bit of a photo op,” said Jaffe, a D.C. native. “Where is the action behind this?”

(my bold throughout excerpt)

Giddily celebrating a cute little "F U" to trump needs to be balanced with an acknowledgement of the reality that this gesture does nothing for black lives if there are no concrete actions for reform behind it.

[SheltieLover]

17. Awesome!

[Alex4Martinez]

18. K&R (nt)

[Archetypist]

19. Fantastic

Very savvy move.

[Cha]

20. Wow! This is brilliant!

TY hpd!