The New York Post reports that "[a] mural painted to honor Iryna Zarutska — the Ukrainian refugee who was murdered [by a black man] while riding a North Carolina train — is being taken down after outrage in Providence, Rhode Island."
The office of Mayor Brett Smiley told Fox News that he wanted the artwork taken down, saying that the art is “divisive and does not represent Providence.”
Providence is home to a street mural honoring "Black Lives Matter" (see also here); a second "Black Lives Matter" mural; a "mural-like image of George Floyd" on a utility box; a "SAY THEIR NAMES" mural listing George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, Tony McDade, David McAtee; and others. For instance, this news story from 2020 reported that murals were going up all over Providence after George Floyd riots. All deeply divisive.
So the issue isn't "divisive" murals. It's that they hate white people, and so Zarutska's fate isn't, in their view, worth remembering.
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