Vandal dumps red paint on Black Lives Matter mural outside Trump Tower

NY Post ^

[bryan999]

Mayor Bill de Blasio’s giant Black Lives Matter mural outside Trump Tower is already getting dumped on.

An unidentified man walked up to the giant mural outside the Midtown skyscraper and poured red paint on the bright yellow letters shortly after noon Monday, then ran off before cops showed up to survey the damage.

“I knew it was going to happen — there’s all this racist s–t going on,” construction worker Billy McCabe told The Post. “The mural shouldn’t have been done right in front of Trump Tower.”

The mural, announced by de Blasio earlier this month, has already become a flashpoint for face-offs between pro- and anti-Trump forces — including an ugly back-and-forth on Saturday.

[redcatcherb412]

Why is “black lives matter” printed on a roadway an artistic ‘mural’, but a “school zone 15MPH” isn’t ? Asking for a crossing guard friend.

[miserare]

I suggest that New Yorkers walk their dogs over it and let them do their duty for America.

[miserare]

I don’t know, but the big idiot coward has a huge yellow stripe up the middle of his back.

[Cobra64]

Trump should order the Air Force to spray paint DeBlasio’s entire house from the air.

[plain talk]

Actually they improved it from the Left's standpoint. You can clearly still read the words. Now it looks like a bit of blood spilled on the "Black Lives" portion of BLM. They should welcome it as it reinforces their purported message.

[Presbyterian Reporter]

“””Is there a chemical that could change the yellow color?”””

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Yep. Its called paint remover!!!!! Available everywhere!!!!

[miserare]

I am sure that some New Yorkers will come up with something more creative.

Like a tankload of turpentine.

[mikey_hates_everything]

ANYONE who lowers the pavement’s coefficient of friction with paint is a vandal.

[xp38]

How about this then.....get a group together with some buckets of driveway sealer and pay a visit at 3 am. Everyone does 1 letter. :)

[dp0622]

lol

you know what??

#### Manhattan

and #### the DISGUSTING OBAMA SON side of staten island where they painted BLM

how hysterical that they put it along the WORST street out here. Shootings every day. A disaster.

i love the irony

[Dr. Sivana]

They are not “Vandals” they are protesters and they didn’t destroy it, the “Altered” it.

I would take it one step farther. This is an exceptional example of post-post-modern performance art, where the conflict and paradox created by the paint becomes part of the performance.

[Reily]

You need to write the art column in the New Yorker!

[Svartalfiar]

Paint on roadways must meet specifications for skid resistance. I wonder if the original paint met those specs?

Well, considering that the graffiti was sponsored by the city, there's a better chance it might be. Doubtful, but maybe.

[Ted Grant]

Sounds staged to me.

[Prince of Space]

I think these “vandals” would be a lot more successful if they “vandalized” during the night.

[beethovenfan]

Needs another 100 gallons of red paint.

[freedomson]

I can't believe they LET PEOPLE DRIVE on it!

The ground where those letters are painted has become consecrated.

It is holy ground.

[KobraKai]

Gasoline should be dumped on it and lit on fire. That ‘mural’ is an abomination!

[Mastador1]

“I knew it was going to happen — there’s all this racist s–t going on,” construction worker Billy McCabe

What a woke Maroon! Yup there's all this racist s-t going on but the elephant in the room is all the racist shit going on is being done by Blacks and their woke stooges, not to mention the Antifa fascists committing racists acts just because they are sick bastards that think injuring people, burning property and looting is fun.

[Fireone]

I had the same thought, after the first street vandalism act, in Wash. D.C.