District Mayor Muriel Bowser on Friday had “Black Lives Matter” painted on 16th street that leads to Lafayette Square and the White House where protesters have been demonstrating following George Floyd’s death in police custody.
My question is why not “ALL LIVES MATTER?” Is she a racist? That’s the next question.
The mayor said that the people who painted it were from the D.C. Public Works Department. “There was a dispute this week about whose street this is,” John Falcicchio, chief of staff for Bowser, a Democrat, said earlier in a tweet. “Mayor Bowser wanted to make it abundantly clear that this is DC’s street and to honor demonstrators who were peacefully protesting on Monday evening.”
President Donald Trump slammed Bowser Friday afternoon, tweeting, “The incompetent Mayor of Washington, D.C., @MayorBowser, who’s budget is totally out of control and is constantly coming back to us for handout, is now fighting with the National Guard, who saved her from great embarrassment over the last number of nights. If she doesn’t treat these men and women well, then we’ll bring in a different group of men and women!”
Trump continued to attack Bowser into Friday evening, calling her “incompetent.” He also said, “She is grossly incompetent, and in no way qualified to be running an important city like Washington, D.C. If the great men and women of the National Guard didn’t step forward, she would have looked no better than her counterpart Mayor in Minneapolis!” he said in a tweet.
