PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — About five years ago, Portland artists created a mural that memorialized Black people who had been killed by police. The art now lives in a storage space downtown.
Volunteers with social justice organization Don’t Shoot PDX — and its new subsidiary The Black Memory and Preservation Lab — stored all 96 panels of the artwork earlier this week.
The mural first appeared outside of Downtown Portland’s Apple store in June 2020, the month after a Minneapolis police officer murdered George Floyd and sparked racial justice protests across the globe.
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Emma Berger started the mural and is believed to have painted its biggest pieces, but others contributed to the work that also memorializes Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery and Deontae Keller. Later in 2021, KOIN 6 reported that Apple had donated the massive mural to Don’t Shoot PDX…