The Black Lives Matter mural in front of the Trump Tower on Fifth Avenue in New York City has been smashed again. The video captured two women splashing blue paint on the new mural, which was also white. earlier this week.
One of the women, Juliet Germanotta, 39, was wearing a rainbow flag, a “Keep America Great” face mask and an “All Lives Matter” shirt, reports CBS New York.
“They should be all lives. They all include black lives, brown lives, white lives,” said Germanotta.
“If the cops wanted to put on Blue Lives Matter, Dumbo will say ‘no.’ De Blasio is Dumbo,” said another woman.
The incident occurred around 4 p.m. Friday, prompting screams of outrage from some witnesses.
Germanotta had announced his plans to destroy the mural on Facebook. “So this Friday, at 4 o’clock in the Trump Tower, the paint spill operates,” she said in a video, showing cans of paint.
Police said four people were involved in the vandalism, according to CBS New York. Germanotta and two others, D’Anna Morgan, 25, and Luis Martínez, 44, were arrested and charged with criminal conduct in connection with vandalism. A 64-year-old woman received a citation for illegal publication of flyers.
The incident marked the second time that the mural was smashed. Police recently released more surveillance videos of the suspect they are looking for in the first incident: a man who splash of red paint on the mural Monday.
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City Department of Transportation workers quickly repainted the mural after that incident, and did so again within a few hours of the second incident on Friday.
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Mayor Bill de Blasio helped paint the mural Earlier this month, he said the new mural will send a message that “black lives are indeed important.”
“When we say ‘Black Lives Matter’ there are no more American statements, there are no more patriotic statements because there is no United States without black America,” said De Blasio, The Associated Press reported. “We are acknowledging the truth of ourselves as Americans by saying ‘Black Lives Matter.'” We are straightening out a mistake. “
President Trump said in tweets before painting the mural that De Blasio “is going to paint a large, expensive, and yellow Black Lives Matter sign on Fifth Avenue, denigrating this luxury avenue,” and predicted that doing so “would further antagonize.” The New York Police Department, which, he said, “vividly” recalls the “horrible BLM chant, ‘Pigs in a blanket, Fry’ Em Like Bacon ‘”.
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