Posters on the wall pay tribute to George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Trayvon Martin, Emmett Till and other African Americans killed by the police or in racially charged murders
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Donald Trump ordered to erect a fence around the White House to keep demonstrators 180 metres away, but people transformed the fence into a memorial wall for George Floyd and a protest site to demand racial and social justice, News Artnet reports.
The fence has been covered in posters paying tribute to George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Trayvon Martin, Emmett Till and other African Americans killed by the police or in other racially charged murders.
Some posters criticise the US president and demand police department be defunded.
“It’s like the whole nation is crying, and this whole fence is crying,” artist Kai Gamanya, who contributed a painting of a clenched fist, told NPR. “And if you were to back up and see it from beginning to end, it’s nothing but posters from all the way down.”
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