Black Lives Matter Plaza demolished in DC

"You can dig up concrete but you cannot erase history," said one resident of the capital.

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"You can dig up concrete but you cannot erase history," said DC resident Dianne Bradley.

Democrat Mayor Muriel Bowser changed the name of the plaza in 2020 to Black Lives Matter Plaza, as a rebuke to President Trump, who had deployed thousands of federal troops to the city to counter people protesting against the murder of George Floyd by a police officer.

The renaming was criticised by the local chapter of the Black Lives Matter Global Network, which called it "a performative distraction from real policy changes".

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