Posted on Jul 6, 2020
Police Seek 2 White People Who Were Seen Vandalizing Black Lives Matter Mural
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The police in Martinez, Calif., said on Sunday that they were seeking two white people who were seen vandalizing a Black Lives Matter mural less than an hour after it was painted in front of a local courthouse on Saturday.
“The community spent a considerable amount of time putting the mural together only to have it painted over in a hateful and senseless manner,” Chief Manjit Sappal of the Martinez Police Department said in a statement. “The city of Martinez values tolerance, and the damage to the mural was divisive and hurtful.”
Videos posted on social media show a white woman using a roller with black paint to cover the letters B and L in “Black Lives Matter,” while a white man records onlookers yelling for them to stop.
The mural, in yellow paint in the middle of a city street, spelled out “Black Lives Matter” in capital letters.
“The community spent a considerable amount of time putting the mural together only to have it painted over in a hateful and senseless manner,” Chief Manjit Sappal of the Martinez Police Department said in a statement. “The city of Martinez values tolerance, and the damage to the mural was divisive and hurtful.”
Videos posted on social media show a white woman using a roller with black paint to cover the letters B and L in “Black Lives Matter,” while a white man records onlookers yelling for them to stop.
The mural, in yellow paint in the middle of a city street, spelled out “Black Lives Matter” in capital letters.
Police Seek 2 White People Who Were Seen Vandalizing Black Lives Matter Mural
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CSM Charles Hayden Passed 7/29/2025 - I don't think so. They want the statue moved go about it legally. Not put on masks and riot. Cities are allowing rioters to go unchecked and do as they will. The message is if you don't like it remove it. Which is exactly what those people did. Without rioting BTW
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SFC Kelly Fuerhoff - Here is the problem. You seem to not understand how the 1st amendment works. You want your ideas to stand but not those opposed to them. Something does not need a tag or plaque on it to inspire learning. If a statue does not have a tag on it there is a thing called a "cell phone" that allows one to access the internet and ask a question about the history of the statue. If you have not learned from a statue or piece of art I'm sorry for you.
The Confederate states attempted to succeed due to their believe that States Rights were paramount. A secondary outcome of their loosing was that slavery was finally outlawed . With the assassination of Abraham Lincoln the Democrat party was able circumvent his plans for reuniting the Southern States. The Democrat Party continued to try to hamstring Black citizens with Jim Crow and organizations like the KKK to keep blacks in line and when that did not work the Democrats KKK members gathered in the night and burned crosses and lynched Black men for nothing but their perceived bruised pride.
Your wanting to get ride of painful history is revisionist history. Abraham Lincolns own papers at his Presidential Library discusses the points of Succession. Those Statues do not intimidate me. They remind me to not let men and women like them back into power. You want to get rid of everything bad about the Civil War lets start with the Democrat Party then.
The Confederate states attempted to succeed due to their believe that States Rights were paramount. A secondary outcome of their loosing was that slavery was finally outlawed . With the assassination of Abraham Lincoln the Democrat party was able circumvent his plans for reuniting the Southern States. The Democrat Party continued to try to hamstring Black citizens with Jim Crow and organizations like the KKK to keep blacks in line and when that did not work the Democrats KKK members gathered in the night and burned crosses and lynched Black men for nothing but their perceived bruised pride.
Your wanting to get ride of painful history is revisionist history. Abraham Lincolns own papers at his Presidential Library discusses the points of Succession. Those Statues do not intimidate me. They remind me to not let men and women like them back into power. You want to get rid of everything bad about the Civil War lets start with the Democrat Party then.
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MSG Tom Earley - Tom in their minds all statues are bad. They don't bother to see what they are pulling down they just attack anything that "Might" offend them. Several Statues were moved to Battlefields due to petitions but that was not "Good Enough" because they still existed
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From the article - Justin Gomez, a local resident who got permission from the city to paint the mural, said of the vandalism on Sunday: “I’m not so surprised that it happened. I’m surprised at how bold they chose to be.” Lol, really?
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