Crews have begun work to remove the large yellow “Black Lives Matter” painted on the street one block from the White House.

Construction workers began removing Washington, D.C.'s Black Lives Matter Plaza mural on Monday, after Mayor Muriel Bowser pledged to redesign the plaza in response to Republican threats to cut the city's transportation funding unless it was renamed.

News speaks to the artist who helped paint the Black Lives Matter plaza in 2020 after crews began ripping it apart.