In painter Don Perlis’ re-creation of the brutal killing of George Floyd, an officer kneels on Floyd’s neck and two other officers further pin him down, as another officer in the background looks away from the scene. Floyd’s eyes, frozen in anguish, gaze out toward the viewer.
The oil painting, alongside a quote from the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere” is amplified on a 16-by-48-foot billboard at La Cienega Boulevard and Holloway Drive near the Sunset Strip in West Hollywood.
The billboard, which went up Monday, is from a group called the George Floyd Justice Billboard Committee. Its goal is to keep Floyd’s death front and center amid a seemingly never-ending news cycle, which most recently included a shockingly different police response to Trump supporters who violently broke into the nation’s Capitol. In late October, the group ran a similar billboard in New York’s Times Square with a quote from the Dalai Lam
A final Trump Christmas carol, Charles Dickens-style
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President Donald Trump arrives to make the coin toss before the Army-Navy Game at Michie Stadium at West Point on December 12. Photo by John Angelillo/UPI | License Photo
At this time of year, Charles Dickens makes a regular appearance in this column. Last year, the ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Future who haunted President Donald Trump were Abraham Lincoln, John McCain and Vladimir Putin. This year, the number of ghosts vying for these three roles were, as Albert Einstein observed about the universe, finite but unbounded.
Readers can pick their favorite or most trenchant ghosts. Of Christmas Past, consider these main contenders. The largest group comprises the tens of thousands of angry, duped investors and campaign contributors who lost or were taken for billions of dollars from the tsunami of Trump failed deals: the Taj Mahal and other casinos; Trump University, Airlines and Vodka; the Plaza Hotel; and