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Community leaders ask why city did not publicly defend BLM and Pride murals after vandalism; downtown partnership installed camera
Summary
During a public Q&A after a placemaking talk, a local NAACP representative and others raised the defacement of a Black Lives Matter mural and a Pride flag artwork. The downtown partnership said it had installed a security camera; the transcript indicates artists repainted the mural.
An audience member speaking as a representative of the local NAACP said the Black Lives Matter mural and a downtown Pride flag mural were repeatedly vandalized and that neither city officials nor the downtown partnership publicly defended the artworks, prompting questions during a public forum.
The NAACP representative said the murals were attacked multiple times and asked who repainted them and whether the city or…
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