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Police arrest Rochester woman for painting 'Black Lives Matter' mural on state property
New Hampshire Union Leader ^ | 7/28/2016 | Kimberly Haas

Posted on 08/02/2016 6:19:31 AM PDT by simpson96

ROCHESTER — Police in Rochester have arrested a local street artist who recently painted a "Black Lives Matter" mural on Blackwater Road.

Beth Wittenberg, 50, turned herself in at the police department Wednesday after a warrant was issued for her arrest. Wittenberg was charged with criminal mischief, a Class A misdemeanor, and released on $1,500 personal recognizance bail.

Wittenberg’s mural, which depicted a backwards American flag with broken black hearts where white stars should be, was her way of protesting the way black citizens are treated.

“As a Jewish American, I understand what it means to be prosecuted, enslaved and baked in ovens. We are supposed to learn from our history. We should all be equal under the law, but the sad truth is we are not,” Wittenberg said. “My protest is about giving voice, standing in solidarity with my Black American friends and family to say, ‘Yes, all lives matter, but in this case where we are speaking of the inequity between whites and blacks, Black Lives Matter.’” (snip)

“I’m just an artist; I don’t make policy. My job as an artist is to record history and have commentary on that history — that’s all,” Wittenberg said.

Wittenberg is an award-winning professional artist who has been working in the field for 25 years.

(Excerpt) Read more at unionleader.com ...


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To: simpson96
Any relation to "triggly-puff"?


21 posted on 08/02/2016 7:09:22 AM PDT by PapaBear3625 (Big government is attractive to those who think that THEY will be in control of it.)
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To: simpson96

Looks like her “work”: hasn’t matured past the third grade.


22 posted on 08/02/2016 7:09:26 AM PDT by CodeToad (Islam should be banned and treated as a criminal enterprise!)
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To: stars & stripes forever

What is it about Jews that makes them so gullible? Supposedly they are a highly intelligent ethnic minority, but the flock to the RAT party like a flock of sheep.


23 posted on 08/02/2016 7:09:49 AM PDT by SPOTTEDOWL (Are frontal lobotomies prerequisite for being classified as a liberal?)
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To: simpson96

Dat horse she flog be ded 151 year, yo...


24 posted on 08/02/2016 7:13:24 AM PDT by W. (Hillary is just like that ex-partner you've hated forever!)
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To: Tijeras_Slim

You win the internet today.


25 posted on 08/02/2016 7:17:13 AM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear (<<<<<a<< he no longer IS my 'teddy bear'.)
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To: All
image from the article (standard progressive look and/or possibly lesbo)

I'm so sick of ignorant people. For cripes sake, you can go to wikipedia and see that Christians were enslaved by muslims long before America even began. The USA has the shortest history of slavery.

26 posted on 08/02/2016 7:36:18 AM PDT by Pollard (TRUMP 2016)
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To: Pollard

That neck tattoo really enhances her femininity.


27 posted on 08/02/2016 7:46:06 AM PDT by gigster (Cogito, Ergo, Ronaldus Magnus Conservatus)
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To: simpson96

I went to the site. I saw the original paint, can’t say painting, it is so bad.

I wonder why she would be proud of it at all.


28 posted on 08/02/2016 7:50:47 AM PDT by 3D-JOY
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To: econjack

I have never seen it questioned better.

Excellent!


29 posted on 08/02/2016 7:53:26 AM PDT by 3D-JOY
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To: simpson96
artist who has been working in the field for 25 years.

Hah! A slave after all. Toiling in the field day in, day out, picking the cotten, singing spirituals...

30 posted on 08/02/2016 8:01:10 AM PDT by Moltke (Reasoning with a liberal is like watering a rock in the hope to grow a building)
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To: simpson96

“I’m just an artist....

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No, honey, you are a vandal with no artistic talent. And, really, you have lived half a century and you did not develop past the age of 11?

Sheesh! At least most graffitists show some artistic talent. (Definitely not endorsing what they do.)


31 posted on 08/02/2016 8:12:45 AM PDT by Bigg Red (You're on fire, stupid!)
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To: Tijeras_Slim
So much for the “starving artist” meme.

As my grandparents used to politely say, "She's looking prosperous!" Obviously not from sales proceeds generated by that "art", though.

32 posted on 08/02/2016 8:44:27 AM PDT by Charles Martel (Endeavor to persevere...)
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