Florida sued after depicting Black firefighter as white in mural

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The city’s public arts manager says she was pressued to alter the mural by a fire chief

The controversy over the mural began in 2019, when Ms Clemons approved use of the photograph of her and two other firefighters to be used to create a public work by the Boynton Beach City Art Commission.

 

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Is it just me or does it look like they didn’t just change her colour, they changed her gender too? How did they think she wouldn’t notice, or would let it slide?

That's what they get.🤣🤦🏾‍♀️

It looks like someone else's face entirely, not just the color.

I was going to say: Is this really the Boynton Beach I knew so well, and then I remembered some of the bar conversations I had from my time there, and it may very well be the Boynton Beach I knew so well.

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