A high school student's painting that depicts the tension between
police and the black community in Ferguson, Missouri, keeps getting
pulled down from a Capitol hallway by Republican lawmakers.
The artwork, painted by Missouri teen David
Pulphus, was selected as part of the Congressional Arts Competition to
hang in an underground tunnel that connects the Capitol with House
office buildings.
It portrays officers with animal-like faces
pointing guns at black citizens and has a sign in the background that
reads "racism kills," a nod to the protests that rocked the St. Louis
suburb after the police shooting of unarmed black teen Michael Brown in
2014.
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