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| − | Nadine Seiler, 55, The unofficial curator of the memorial and protest fence within the White House and Black Lives Matter Plaza, Takes a photo with a floral arrangement pushing people to vote. (Nadine Seiler)
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| − | Nadine Seiler stood ahead of memorial fence at Black Lives Matter Plaza feeling defeated.
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| − | She had spent months away from the White House advocating for Black people like her, And she seen as the fortressed fencing around Lafayette Square went up, afterward down, Then up when. When protest signs fell down, She harvested them up. as soon became damaged, She repaired these tape. She tidy the mementos there into three exhibits: Police reputation, Social the law, Faces this dead.
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| − | Just <a href=htttps://www.linkedin.com/in/charmingdate>charmingdate</a> as newly confirmed supreme court Justice Amy Coney Barrett was being sworn in by Justice Clarence Thomas at the South Lawn of the White House, Three people who said they were acting in the name of Jesus stormed the memorial wall, in Seiler and video posted on social media. The group led by a White careful activist from Texas and two antiabortion Black women from New Jersey worked for hours in the darkness, pushing away sign after sign. i was told that they came to celebrate Barrett's ascension to the bench.
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| − | Seiler and the strangers around her tried to block the signs with their bodies.
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| − | The tension first started late Monday afternoon, Hours before Barrett's evidence, according to witness interviews and video. Rally along fences and shouting in her megaphone "election him out, The small activists, In town for the Let Us praise event on the Mall, Had come to Black Lives Matter Plaza before heading to the top court to pray.
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| − | 'This is what he lived for': John Lewis taken into consideration at Black Lives Matter Plaza
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| − | The targeted visitors, Kevin Whitt, Bevelyn Beatty and as a result Edmee Chavannes, contacted the memorial fence. Whitt later told The miami Post he is the assistant director of the Texas chapter of MassResistance, A socially practical and anti LGBTQ activist group, And the ladies said they run an evangelical street ministry.
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| − | They briefly argued with Seiler about the mission of Black Lives Matter. they then left.
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| − | some of the trio, Not being dressed in masks, Said they were upset that the view of the White House was blocked by signs. They created snatching, They declared The Post.
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| − | Seiler started recording on her cellphone although some around her desperately tried to stop the destruction. To demonstration, Used their feet and hands and a tambourine to protect the signs. walker said she lost a lock of hair in the bedlam, And Arbeiter said she lost her cellphone.
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| − | One man sprawled his body across the soil and tucked the signs beneath him.
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| − | Still could not tear down the tall white sign, the women left, moving back a final time with scissors. Starts to reclaim the street
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| − | Beatty and Chavannes sliced from word "thrives, And one more large sign fell.
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| − | This was the scene Caterina Sesana walked into when she and a friend turned up to help.
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| − | Seiler did not want to leave the signs un monitored, But did not have room in her car because it was stuffed with her curator supplies tape, Zip ties, posters, fresh paint. For the daily protest away from the White House. Though a small crew collected the surviving signs to recover the wall, Seiler isn't hopeful.
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| − | think before to bring tape or make new signs, Seiler said on the unit to Karen Irwin, who had been a regular at the fence since joining the William Thomas Anti Nuclear Peace Vigil this fall. currently point, She defined, Of putting them back up if they'll just be torn back down?
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| − | "I am a patriot on this country, he was quoted saying. "is usually my capital. seriously is my White House,
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| − | Seiler has spent every night since continuing to repair what was broken.
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| − | She has wrapped the new signs in clear tape to store them dry and fortified the old ones with extra zip ties.
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