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N.Y.C. Paints ‘Black Lives Matter’ in Front of Trump Tower - The New York Times

N.Y.C. Paints ‘Black Lives Matter’ in Front of Trump Tower - The New York Times

N.Y.C. Paints ‘Black Lives Matter’ in Front of Trump Tower - The New York Times
Jul 09, 2020 1 min, 13 secs

The public art project was the latest battle in a feud between President Trump and Mayor Bill de Blasio.

New York City began painting “Black Lives Matter” in large yellow letters on the street outside Trump Tower on Thursday, the latest flare-up in a yearslong feud between President Trump, who rose to fame as a Manhattan real estate developer, and Mayor Bill de Blasio, who once sought to replace him.

“Black lives matter in our city, and Black lives matter in the United States of America,” Mr.

de Blasio said on Thursday morning, before joining city workers and activists in spreading school-bus yellow paint on Fifth Avenue, between 56th and 57th Streets, in Manhattan.

The city’s announcement of the painting provoked an inflammatory response that tried to play on tensions between Black Lives Matter protesters and the New York Police Department.

The mayor once said that New York would not “welcome back” Mr.

The painting outside Trump Tower is a part of a citywide project that will ultimately see at least one similar street painting in each of New York’s five boroughs.

New York City’s project followed an act by Mayor Muriel Bowser of Washington, who had “Black Lives Matter” painted in giant yellow letters outside the White House after the president deployed federal officers during protests there sparked by the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis

New York City has continued to see largely peaceful protests in recent weeks, though Mr

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