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City Workers Deface Market Street Restaurant’s Racial Unity Mural

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Filed under:Also: Marufuku heads to Redwood City, and more news to start your day.San Francisco’s Department of Public Works (DPW) is under scrutiny this week for covering over pro-Black Lives Matter art at a local restaurant and — of all places — on a prominent Bernal Heights rock, the latest of the beleaguered agency’s .The DPW is the agency tasked with keeping the city’s streets and public spaces clean, and is also responsible for enforcing , by if a building is tagged.RelatedThat’s not what happened at , . Last week, Kantine’s owners commissioned artist Jennifer Sonderby to create a mural for its boarded-up storefront. After two days of work, the end result was a depiction of a clasped black and white hand (), a “response to the death of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor,” Sonderby says.In the dead of night — 2:15 a.m. on Friday, Kantine’s surveillance video reportedly shows — a crew from DPW painted over just a portion of the art, covering the hands but leaving the top couple feet of the mural as-is. (It quite arguably looks worse after DPW’s ministrations! of the end result.)It’s unclear why this was done, and after contacting DPW, Kantine owners Nichole Accettola and Joachim Majholm aren’t completely sure, either. The DPW said “our staff should not have painted over it” and that “the employees in the video will be counseled and re-trained on what constitutes an appropriate abatement.” However, the DPW refused to pay for the damage its workers admittedly did, saying that it is a “a regrettable reality in our city’s current climate: we have no resources to repaint your mural.”This isn’t the only art calling for racial equity that the DPW has covered over in recent days, as the Bernal Heights Boulder, a rock that for years has been home to art depicting the issues of the day, has had messages in support of the Black Lives Matter movement removed , the SF Chronicle reports. As with the Kantine situation, (its most recent permanent head, it should be noted, ) says that the DPW coverup on the boulder was “an extremely unfortunate mistake.”Sign up for our newsletter.Sign up for our newsletter.The freshest news from the local food world

Filed under:Also: Marufuku heads to Redwood City, and more news to start your day.San Francisco’s Department of Public Works (DPW) is under scrutiny this week for covering over pro-Black Lives Matter art at a local restaurant and — of all places — on a prominent Bernal Heights rock, the latest of the beleaguered agency’s .The DPW is the agency tasked with keeping the city’s streets and public spaces clean, and is also responsible for enforcing , by if a building is tagged.RelatedThat’s not what happened at , . Last week, Kantine’s owners commissioned artist Jennifer Sonderby to create a...

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