As several young people gathered outside to scrub graffiti off a memorial, others also gathered around to criticize them for not allowing the vandalism to remain there for a single day.
As several young people gathered outside to scrub graffiti off a memorial in London, others also gathered around to criticize them for not allowing the vandalism to remain there for a single day.
The video begins with a woman criticizing those scrubbing a memorial, saying, "couldn't even wait a day, not one day, because of their precious memorial."
Moments later another woman breaks in, saying, "excuse me, when I saw you [the scrubbers] earlier, you picked up the sign, you all picked up signs and put them in bin bags... why did you put them up? I don't understand."
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View on XThe group taking care to wash the memorial stayed silent and continued scrubbing as another woman shifted the camera, saying, "I'm going to get their [the scrubbers] faces in, everybody say 'cheese'," undoubtedly in an effort to ridicule those who were trying to do right by their city and community.
A similar situation happened when three women were working to scrub off graffiti from the side of a federal building when they were approached by a woman who asked what they were doing.
When the three described that they were removing the vandalism, the woman recording said, "why are you removing black lives matter graffiti?"
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View on XAfter the three women said that they were removing it because it was a federal building, the one recording said, "so you don't care about black lives then?"
The video ended with the woman recording saying, "not a great way to use your white privilege."
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