With Trump Out of White House, DC Mayor Bowser Paves Over Black Lives Matter Plaza
Washington, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser had the massive yellow lettered anti-Trump protest message “Black Lives Matter” located a block from the White House paved over now that President Trump is no longer in the White House. Bowser had the two block long message painted on 16th Street NW in response to Trump’s taking control of D.C. streets to shut down liberals rioting and burning the nation’s capital last year. Bowser dubbed the site “Black Lives Matter Plaza.” The move comes a day after the Biden administration opened Lafayette Square to the public for the first time since the George Floyd riots.
Satellite image of Black Lives Matter Plaza, Washington, D.C. June 2020 via Maxar Technologies
What came to be called Black Lives Matter Plaza–located at 16th and H Streets NW just above Lafayette Square and the White House–was the scene of several arson fires set by insurrectionists the last weekend of May 2020 who took advantage of the reaction to the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis police custody to try to storm the White House.
