Opposing vandalism
A federal building that is home to the Export-Import Bank of the United States and some offices of the Department of Veterans Affairs was one of the many Washington, D.C., structures vandalized amid the uprisings following the death at the hands of Minneapolis police of suspect George Floyd.
But when three women were scrubbing the graffiti “Blacks Lives Matter” slogan off the building last week, a woman drove up, started filming them and asked, “Why are you guys removing the ‘Black Lives Matter’ graffiti?”
“This is a federal building,” one of the women said, “and we care about our country and city.”
“So you don’t care about black lives then,” said the woman filming.
