[image: Crews begin work to remove the “Black Lives Matter” street mural and plaza in Wa]
Washington, DC officials began jackhammering the stretch of 16th Street NE painted with the controversial “Black Lives Matter” message Monday, a victory for Rep. Andrew Clyde (R-GA).
The street on Black Lives Plaza, renamed from Liberty Plaza by D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser in 2020 as riots following George Floyd’s death paralyzed the city, served as a divisive partisan message during the 2020 campaign season.
On March 3 Clyde reintroduced his bill to remove the message and rename the plaza – just one block from the White House – which Breitbart News reported <www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/03/03/exclusive-we-are-not-a-defund-the-police-nation-rep-andrew-clyde-intros-bill-to-rename-d-c-s-blm-plaza-as-liberty-plaza/> exclusively.
The following day, Bowser announced she would replace the message with murals.
“It wouldn’t have happened without the pressure,” Clyde told Breitbart News in an exclusive interview Monday. “I mean, we are trying to make a more efficient government, and President Trump is pushing the message that this is the golden era of America. You can’t have a message of ‘Black Lives Matter’ painted on 40-foot letters across multiple blocks of Washington, DC.
“That is a divisive message. The golden era of America is not divisive in nature.”
While the Home Rule Act of 1973 gave D.C. some local autonomy, Congress has the authority to vet all D.C. laws, even outright overturn them, under terms of the law. Trump has argued for the federal government taking back control over the district’s government amid a wave of crime and homelessness fueled by officials prioritizing woke political posturing over sound governance.
Clyde called the “45-year experiment” of D.C. home rule “an abysmal failure,” criticizing the city for pushing divisiveness even as the November elections were “absolutely a referendum by this country on this type of stuff.”
“It was 100 percent a message from the American people on wokeness, on DEI, on critical race theory, all of that rejected by the American people,” he told Breitbart News.
Washington, DC officials began jackhammering the stretch of 16th Street NE painted with the controversial “Black Lives Matter” message Monday, a victory for Rep. Andrew Clyde (R-GA).
The street on Black Lives Plaza, renamed from Liberty Plaza by D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser in 2020 as riots following George Floyd’s death paralyzed the city, served as a divisive partisan message during the 2020 campaign season.
On March 3 Clyde reintroduced his bill to remove the message and rename the plaza – just one block from the White House – which Breitbart News reported <www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/03/03/exclusive-we-are-not-a-defund-the-police-nation-rep-andrew-clyde-intros-bill-to-rename-d-c-s-blm-plaza-as-liberty-plaza/> exclusively.
The following day, Bowser announced she would replace
“It wouldn’t have happened without the pressure,” Clyde told Breitbart News in an exclusive interview Monday. “I mean, we are trying to make a more efficient government, and President Trump is pushing the message that this is the golden era of America. You can’t have a message of ‘Black Lives Matter’ painted on 40-foot letters across multiple blocks of Washington, DC.
“That is a divisive message. The golden era of America is not divisive in nature.”
While the Home Rule Act of 1973 gave D.C. some local autonomy, Congress has the authority to vet all D.C. laws, even outright overturn them, under terms of the law. Trump has argued for the federal government taking back control over the district’s government amid a wave of crime and homelessness fueled by officials prioritizing woke political posturing over sound governance.
Clyde called the “45-year experiment” of D.C. home rule “an abysmal failure,” criticizing the city for pushing divisiveness even as the November elections were “absolutely a referendum by this country on this type of stuff.”
“It was 100 percent a message from the American people on wokeness, on DEI, on critical race theory, all of that rejected by the American people,” he told Breitbart News.
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