Crews started work Monday to remove the large yellow 'Black Lives Matter' painted on the street one block from the White House in Washington, D.C.
<p>WASHINGTON — Starlette Thomas remembers coming down almost daily to the intersection of 16th and H streets, to protest police brutality and systemic racial iniquities during the summer of 2020.
</p><p>On Monday, the 45-year-old Bowie, Maryland, resident returned to the site of those protests to mourn the end of Black Lives Matter Plaza.</p><p>"I needed to be here today. I can't just let this go away," Thomas said, as jackhammers began tearing into the giant yellow letters in the street. Thomas discretely secured a chunk of pavement and said holding it made her feel conflicted.</p><p>"To walk away with a piece of that, it means it's not gone," she said. "It's more than brick and mortar."</p><p>Crews started work Monday to remove the large yellow "Black Lives Matter" painted on the street one block from the White House. D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser announced the change last week in response to pressure from Republicans in Congress. The work is expected to take about six weeks, and the words will be replaced by an unspecified set of city-sponsored murals.</p><p>The painting of those words was an act of government-sponsored defiance during President Donald Trump's first term. The removal amounts to a public acknowledgment of just how vulnerable the Di
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