, people wrote such phrases as “Black Power,” “Bloods and Crips Together Tonight” and “This Is for Rodney King.” That year gangs were peacemakers while abusive policing and white supremacy were called out in bold strokes on the streets — “LAPD 187,” which invoked the California penal code for murder, and “KKK Killa.” Then as now, owners decorated storefronts for protection and to signal solidarity: “Black Owner. We Are With You.
Today, graffiti cuts to the heart of protest. People demand “Care, Not Cops,” 16-year-olds spray paint “FDT,” an acronym incorporating the president’s initials. The current social movement around police brutality amplifies a key message: Police need to be held accountable. Pushing back against lethal policing has led to novel alliances between people from diverse race and class backgrounds and the organizing principle of staging protests in wealthy, commercial neighborhoods. These shifts show up on the walls alongsideThe political graffiti that’s sprung up recently in Los Angeles and across the nation can be divided into two loose categories.
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This tweet is very confusing.
Infected does not equal death. Death rate 0.2%.
CA is top down run by Democrats which includes liberal Hollywood & Silicon Valley. If racism is systemic, then why havent they addressed these issues before? What the F have they been doing all this time?
1% positivity rate in SLO county, aggressive contact tracing, we know where it is here.
You can bet on it. Some of us already had it
opinion It's still defacing public or private property.
opinion LA street art is best art. The Kobe murals are terrific.
opinion Why doesn’t la times have their building covered with BLM graffiti ? Maybe you should
opinion Defund the graffiti task force...........
opinion Oh boy
opinion To be clear, you are promoting vandalism as the right thing to do? Who you gonna call when they attack the Times complex? Oh wait they don't trash allies.
opinion You literally found the world's only professor of graffiti to comment on the graffiti? Let me guess, she comes out in favor. Now interview the store owners who don't have tenure and cush jobs who have to wash that shit from their store fronts to try and feed their families.
opinion Yeah, 'fuck the police' is really helpful.
opinion Millions of dollars buildings and expensive architects to create beauty in the world. Not your building? means not your canvas!! Lock up, throw away the key to the hate taggers.
opinion 'Graffiti'.... Street Internet!!!!!!
opinion Cut the crab?
opinion Praising graffitti now? How are you still a newspaper?
opinion Art.... not graffiti.
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