The Big Apple plans to have a “Black Lives Matter” street mural painted outside of Trump Tower in midtown Manhattan–Fifth Avenue between 56th and 57th Streets, to be exact–sometime before July 4, according to The New York Post.
The Post has reported that Mayor Bill De Blasio devised this plan after a June 7 meeting with Black community leaders and activists, including the Rev. Kevin McCall and Gwen Carr, the mother of Eric Garner, sources said.
“The mayor doesn’t think Black Lives Matter is a stunt.
Told that @NYCMayor Bill de Blasio wants to paint the fabled beautiful Fifth Avenue, right in front of Trump Tower/Tiffany, with a big yellow Black Lives Matter sign.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 25, 2020
The New York City mayor came up with the idea after Washington, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser had “Black Lives Matter” painted along a street leading up the road to the White House, according to a second source.
