New York City started painting a Black Lives Matter mural Thursday on Fifth Avenue in front of Trump Tower.
Local television network WPIX reported the block of the street would be closed to cars until Sunday while the mural was painted.
The planned mural had provoked the ire of President Donald Trump, who slammed the mural on Twitter earlier this month as "denigrating" the street, antagonizing the city's police, and creating a "symbol of hate" on "New York's finest street."
Mayor Bill De Blasio responded to Trump's posts, saying "Black people BUILT 5th Ave and so much of this nation....we are honoring them."
Several cities across the country have painted murals in support of the Black Lives Matter movement, including Washington, D.C. which painted "Black Lives Matter" in 50-foot yellow letters near the White House to honor the protesters. D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser also renamed the location of the mural as "Black Lives Matter Plaza."
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Not everyone has praised the murals, though. Activists have called the painting of the murals like Washington, D.C.'s a "performative distraction" from substantive changes to policing like cuts to police budgets or reforms to use-of-force policies.
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