“I thought under the cover of darkness our local racists would go out there and do whatever they wanted to do,” the mural organizer said. “But this was literally while there were people there enjoying the mural.'
of a white truck belonging to the vandalism suspects, who Sappal said were white, and asked for help identifying them.“The community spent a considerable amount of time putting the mural together only to have it painted over in a hateful and senseless manner,” he said. “The City of Martinez values tolerance and the damage to the mural was divisive and hurtful.
Gomez said they initially wanted to paint a BLM mural in a popular plaza, but the city suggested the street outside the county courthouse. The local activists thought it was a good compromise while they search for another location for a larger mural in the meantime, Gomez said.It took just a few hours to crowdfund the $800 for the project, he said. Around 7:30 a.m. Saturday, more than 100 people showed up in face masks, many with their own rollers, and were finished by 2 p.m.
“I thought under the cover of darkness, our local racists would go out there and do whatever they wanted to do,” Gomez said. “But this was literally while there were people there enjoying the mural, taking pictures, when these two individuals [started ruining it] in such a brazen and hateful and ignorant way.”A woman yelled to the two vandals that what they were doing was racist. The man in the Trump reelection shirt responded, “There is no oppression, there is no racism. It’s a leftist lie.
“F----- keep America great again, that’s right,” he said. “Why don’t you guys learn about history and the Emancipation Proclamation Act? Yeah, that’s right, Abraham Lincoln. You’re only free because of our forefathers.”At one point, the woman painting the letters black asked the man filming to go to their truck to get her more paint. Eventually, an onlooker snatched the paint can away as the female vandal pledged to return with more.
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