New York City police have released surveillance photos and videos of a man splashing red paint on the “Black Lives Matter” street mural in front of the Trump Tower.
NEW YORK – Surveillance photos and video of a man who was seen splashing red paint on the “Black Lives Matter” street mural in front of the Trump Tower was released Tuesday by New York City police.
The video shows a man in black shorts and a dark blue T-shirt pouring red paint over the giant yellow letters that Mayor Bill de Blasio helped paint last week in front of the eponymous tower of President Donald Trump.
The vandalism occurred around noon Monday, police said. De Blasio tweeted hours later, “For whoever destroyed our mural on 5th Avenue: Nice try,” adding that the city’s Department of Transportation “had already fixed it.” De Blasio said the Black Lives Matter movement “is more than words, and cannot be undone.”
The words “Black Lives Matter” have been painted on the streets of New York and elsewhere in recent weeks to show their support for the movement demanding justice and reform after the recent murder of George Floyd and other black people by the police. .
Trump complained last month that placing the words on Fifth Avenue in front of his building would denigrate “this luxurious avenue.”
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