A few days later, the D.C. mayor commissioned a striking 48-foot-wide "Black Lives Matter" mural near the site of the altercation. The street painting spanned two blocks of 16th Street ...

Most copied: D.C. The day before Mansfield began painting on Chicago Avenue in Minneapolis, federal law enforcement used tear gas and rubber pellets to clear largely peaceful demonstrators from D ...

Please do not permanently remove the painting. I understand D.C. is vulnerable, and Bowser is trying to protect the District we love. However, we are at a crossroads as a city and a nation.

A group of people gathered nearby to see the painting in its final moments on Monday. "There's no such thing as erasure," D.C. resident Adrianne Lind said. "If that's the attempt, it's just not ...