Posted on 01/10/2017 10:06:51 AM PST by fungoking
Democratic lawmakers on Tuesday re-hung a painting on Capitol Hill that depicts a police officer as a pig, just days after a Republican colleague took it down -- in a move sure to inflame the controversy and rile law enforcement groups.
California Republican Rep. Duncan Hunter on Friday personally removed the painting, saying he was angered by its depiction of police. He said Tuesday the piece also violates the art-contest rules.
But Democratic Rep. Lacy Clay, a member of the Congressional Black Caucus from whose Missouri district the picture came, said Tuesday after helping re-hang the picture that Hunter’s action was “blatant censorship.”
Clay has said he wants the Capitol Hill police to file theft charges against Hunter, who after removing the painting returned it to Clay’s congressional office. Clay insisted he is not “anti-police” and said he “does not agree or disagree with the painting” -- arguing his intent is to defend the First Amendment rights of the 18-year-old artist, David Pulphus. He argued the artist’s world view has been shaped by the “animalistic” behavior of police officers, particularly the recent, high-profile cases in which unarmed black males died in confrontations with police.
The acrylic painting depicts a police officer as a pig in uniform aiming a gun at African-American protesters. Above the scene, two birds -- one black, one white -- fight, and beside them, an African-American protester holding a scale of justice is crucified.
Law enforcement groups had strongly objected to the painting’s display on the Capitol complex grounds, with one group calling it “reprehensible, repugnant and repulsive.” Earlier Tuesday, Hunter said on the Fox News Channel’s “Fox & Friends”: “The Capitol Police aren’t going to arrest me for taking down a picture that portrays them as pigs.”
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“Leave it up. Add a plaque that states this painting relieves undisputed support from the Democrat party.”
Now, that’s not a bad idea....
Gee, they are starting the Trump reelection campaign awfully early. Lol
Week I may as well offer my campaign slogan recommendation
Trump a 2020 vision for the future
One would think there are rules for what gets displayed on congress walls. It needs to be dealt with fundamentally and not just in regard to this one painting to stop other trashy paintings from being hung this way
Burn it! If one wanted to hang a picture of Jefferson Davis or Robert E. Lee—people would object and that art destroyed as well. Pigs as cops is nothing but BLM Propaganda.
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