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Artist asked to remove anti-police language from Black Lives Matter mural in Seattle

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A Black Lives Matter mural in Seattle stirred controversy when the original artist was asked to paint over anti-police messaging in the work, according to a KOMO News report.

Residents of the Capitol Hill Organized Protest first painted the mural in June, covering Pine Street between 10th and 11th avenues.

Fifteen artists were involved in the original mural, and the city asked each to touch it up. Part of that touch-up involved asking the artist of the “E” in “Matter” to paint over anti-police messages in the letter.

VividMatterCollective, which is responsible for the mural, said the artist recently added the words without notifying other artists. “Our City and nation are in the midst of a reckoning with police violence and systemic racism,.

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