VIDEO – New York: the slogan “Black Lives Matter” painted in giant letters in front of the Trump Tower

In front of the gray tower which rises in the air, yellow letters which spread out on the asphalt. The message is more than explicit to anyone looking out the windows of Trump Tower in New York, under which we can now read the slogan “Black lives matter”. This Thursday, July 9, city workers, volunteers of all kinds and even Mayor Bill de Blasio, took a paint roller to write this infamous sentence on 5th Avenue.

The letters are written so that they can be read upright from the windows of the President’s Tower. One way to give visibility to this fight with Donald Trump, to force him to watch him, he who is accused of minimizing the anti-racist movement. See sometimes discredit him. Last week, Donald Trump commented on the project for this fresco, estimating on Twitter that she would be “a symbol of hatred “, and that the work would come to “denigrate this luxurious avenueAs a reminder, it was at the top of this 58-storey skyscraper that the former real estate mogul lived until his departure for the White House.

This is the reason why among the witnesses of the ceremony, many greeted “an important symbolThe idea comes from the Democratic mayor, who announced on July 1 that everything would be done to carry out such a work. The city of New York had therefore closed this morning this famous artery of the center of Manhattan. ? Let the elected Republican hear “three words he never showed any respect for“.

An operation that echoes that carried out in Washington in early June. With the mayor’s agreement, a painting was displayed along a street leading to the White House. Either the billionaire’s new living space.

At the end of the marking, under the gaze of many cameras, Mayor Bill de Blasio came to add his touch of yellow to the letter “L”, accompanied by other officials such as the Reverend Al Sharpton, figure of the fight for justice racial. Before grabbing his scroll, the elected left wanted to briefly recall his intention: “Let’s show Donald Trump what he doesn’t understand. Let’s paint him right outside his building for him. “A symbolic and somewhat media-oriented operation which will not be enough to calm anger. Among those questioned on the spot by the local press, all agree that this is only the beginning.