Crews have begun work to remove the large yellow “Black Lives Matter” painted on the street one block from the White House. D.C.

Anger as crews begin destruction of ‘Black Lives Matter’ mural near White House - The mural was originally painted in response to George Floyd’s death in 2020

D.C. began dismantling Black Lives Matter Plaza on Monday, less than a week after Mayor Muriel Bowser announced it would be transformed. Why it matters: The mural near the White House went up in summer 2020 to protest police brutality and as a rebuke to President Trump in his first term.