Lacy Clay, and the prized painting
Painting depicting police as pigs taken down in Capitol
A bad painting depicting police officers as feral pigs while celebrating Black Lives Matter violence in a hallway at the Capitol, has finally been taken off the wall.
Published: January 7, 2017, 10:07 am
House Republican Duncan Hunter from California, had had enough on Friday and personally removed the abomination posturing as art, spokesman Joe Kasper told The Hill. Hunter, an Iraq War veteran and early supporter of President-elect Donald Trump, returned the painting to Clay’s office on the same morning.
The painting which depicts a confrontation between police and blacks, decorated a busy hallway between the Capitol and two House office buildings, near a Capitol Police screening checkpoint.
It was displayed as part of an annual art competition sponsored by House members’ offices. A Democrat from Missouri, Lacy Clay, awarded it a first place prize last summer.
The winning painting was granted a place on the wall in the Capitol complex, to be viewed by hundreds of lawmakers, staff and visitors daily.
The work shows an urban street filled with black protesters, two of whom are holding signs with the words “History” and “Racism Kills”. A young black man behind bars hovers in the skyline behind the protesters, and another black man is stretched on a crucifix in the foreground. Two police-officers-as-feral-pigs with their guns drawn at a protester depicted as a black panther decorate the foreground.
Clay, a member of the Congressional Black Caucus, represents the town of Ferguson, Mo., where a white police officer shot a criminal black teenager in 2014, which sparked nationwide protests against alleged police brutality.
The subject of the offending painting came up during a House GOP conference meeting Friday morning, according to lawmakers in attendance.
Republican Billy Long, also from Missouri, expressed frustration about the painting, lawmakers told The Hill, saying Capitol Police and other law enforcement officers from around the country are offended by it.
Clay’s office confirmed the account but did not comment. Earlier he had lavished praise on the piece, describing it as “the most creative expression that I’ve witnessed over the last 16 years,” according to the St. Louis American.
Other Democrats are furious. The House Ethics Committee is currently looking into Hunter’s expense account. A spokesman for House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi suggested Hunter would regret the move.
Artwork, mostly paintings and photographs, awarded prizes in the annual art competition are hung in the tunnel linking the Cannon and Longworth House office buildings for one year.
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