Targeted twice: Wheat Ridge woman s Black Lives Matter mural vandalized
KMGH reporter Micah Smith
and last updated 2021-04-23 20:50:28-04
WHEAT RIDGE, Colo. â The message behind a Black Lives Matter mural in Wheat Ridge was been hijacked twice in 6 months.
The artist, Bex Paz, painted the mural at her home as a gift to her girlfriend during the height of Black Lives Matter protests following the death of George Floyd.
But within 24 hours of completing the mural, Paz and her two children, Billie and Charlie Girmann, discovered someone vandalized and changed the colorful message.
âThey blacked out the word Black and put all , and then they wrote all over the whole of it,â said Paz. âI was heartbroken. Not just because I put a lot of work into it, or because it was gift to my girlfriend but because the âall lives matterâ phrasing has been phrasing thatâs been weaponized against the Black Lives Matter movement.â