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   Washington, D.C. officials have now dismantled a monument to Black Lives   
   Matter (BLM) that was intended to be a “permanent” symbol of the leftist   
   movement.   
      
   Construction workers on Monday completed the removal of Black Lives Matter   
   Plaza from Washington, D.C.’s 16th Street in front of the White House   
   following weeks of demolition, photos and videos show. Democratic   
   Washington, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser had the road emblazoned with “Black   
   Lives Matter” in large yellow lettering following BLM protests in   
   Washington in 2020, but agreed to demolish it after President Donald Trump   
   returned to the White House and Congress threatened to revoke D.C. funding   
   if it remained.   
      
   “Less than one month ago, I introduced legislation to force D.C. to remove   
   Black Lives Matter Plaza,” Republican Rep. Andrew Clyde of Georgia said   
   Monday in an X post. “Today, BLM Plaza is officially GONE.”   
      
   “We’re making our nation’s capital great again!” Clyde said, joining one   
   of many celebratory reactions by conservatives online.   
      
   Bowser began building the plaza in June 2020 after BLM protesters had   
   wreaked havoc on Washington in May, after George Floyd died in police   
   custody in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Mobs of people attempted to storm the   
   White House, injured law enforcement, vandalized businesses and historic   
   monuments and more in the weeks following Floyd’s death. The protesters   
   also set a church on fire in May 2020 The church is adjacent to where the   
   plaza stood and near the White House.   
      
   Bowser’s office said in 2021 that the city built the $4.8 million project   
   to show solidarity after federal law enforcement and National Guard troops   
   used tear gas to disperse demonstrators “protesting police brutality and   
   racial injustice.” Her office called the plaza a “permanent” structure to   
   send “a strong message that Black Lives Matter, and that power has always   
   been and always will be with well-meaning people.”   
      
   Rep. Clyde previously told the Daily Caller News Foundation that D.C.   
   shouldn’t be “honoring” a “pro-crime” movement by naming a piece of the   
   town after it.   
      
   “I mean, think if you are an MPD officer and you go by that every solitary   
   day, what does that tell you? This city hates me,” Clyde said.   
      
   Clean the nigger infestation out of Washington DC.  It's a fucking   
   embarrassment for a nation's capital to look like a black ghetto shithole.   
      
   --- SoupGate-DOS v1.05   
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