A Black mom who misplaced her son earlier than the rise of the Black Lives Matter motion says the removing of BLM Plaza in our nation’s capital is an indication the nation is in a foul place.

Ahmaud Arbery‘s mother, Wanda Cooper Jones, tells TMZ … the removing of the BLM mural in Washington, D.C. “appears like a foul omen” and he or she says it serves as “a reminder of how fragile progress could be.”

Wanda says BLM was by no means about murals, monuments, or symbolic gestures … it is all the time been about accountability, justice and significant change — however she does not just like the change being made right here.

As we reported … Jamie Foxx says Black American social efforts are taking a step again because of President Trump pressuring D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser to take away the mural below risk of dropping federal funding.

Arbery was murdered in February 2020 whereas out for a run in Georgia … and video of his homicide by the hands of three white males sparked widespread outrage.

BLM actually took off after George Floyd was murdered by a white cop months later, sparking summer time protests nationwide … however Arbery’s case stays an enormous a part of the motion … as does Breonna Taylor‘s dying. The Trayvon Martin and Michael Brown killings additionally prompted the early beginnings of the BLM trigger.

Lee Merritt, an lawyer who has labored with the households of Arbery, Floyd and Taylor, tells TMZ … “Justice is not measured in murals — it is measured in legal guidelines, accountability, and defending Black lives.”