Construction workers began disassembling the Black Lives Matter Plaza near the White House on Monday after threats by Republicans to reduce transportation of transport if the square was not renamed.
“You can dig concrete, but you can't delete the story,” said DC resident Diane Bradley.
Democrat Mayor Muriel Bowser changed the name of Plaza in 2020 by Black Lives Matter Plaza, as a reproach of President Trump, who had deployed thousands of federal troops in the city to counteract people who protest the murder of George Floyd by a police officer.
The renaming was criticized by the Global Network Black Lives Matter local chapter, which called it “performative distraction from real policy changes.”