Black Lives Matter Mural Unveiled In Brooklyn — Transcript

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1. 0:00city now has its first black lives
2. 0:02matter street mural volunteers stayed up
3. 0:04all night to pull off the big project
4. 0:06with a big message here CBS 2's Natalie
5. 0:08dud rich
6. 0:09big bold letters form the words black
7. 0:11lives matter along Fulton Street in
8. 0:13bed-stuy public art with a political
9. 0:16message
10. 0:16I just felt a very strong sense of hope
11. 0:19it had a very emotional significance for
12. 0:21me Leclaire robinson recently traveled
13. 0:23to washington DC to protest police
14. 0:25brutality she was moved by a similar
15. 0:28mural painted near the White House now
16. 0:30she has this inspirational art blocks
17. 0:32from her bed-stuy home things aren't
18. 0:34going to change immediately but it's
19. 0:36still gonna give hope for the future
20. 0:39dozens of artists and local volunteers
21. 0:42work together to paint the piece
22. 0:44Saturday into Sunday we are putting in
23. 0:46over four pages of names men and women
24. 0:51who have been killed due to racial
25. 0:53violence in the United States are gonna
26. 0:56see everyone from Emmett Till to Freddie
27. 0:58gray to Michael Brown Sondra Blaine
28. 1:02Brianna Taylor it's heartbreaking the
29. 1:05amount of names that we're going to be
30. 1:07embedding in their honor New York City
31. 1:09Councilman Robert Kornegay is also
32. 1:11pushing to make the several blocks zone
33. 1:13along Fulton Street car-free this would
34. 1:16be a plasma that we can come and gather
35. 1:18and really have conversations about the
36. 1:20future and really just a focal point for
37. 1:23the change that we see this corridor
38. 1:26along Fulton Street has now turned into
39. 1:28an art canvas in
40. 1:30definitely an organizers hope we'll see
41. 1:32more works of art like this for racial
42. 1:34justice across the city in bed-stuy
43. 1:37Brooklyn Natalie Dedrick CBS 2 News