Brooklyn Heights church’s ‘Black Lives Matter’ banner is stolen, twice
Brooklyn Heights, a neighborhood with a strong interfaith identity and commitment to justice, experienced its own incidents of racial intolerance when church banners declaring “Black Lives Matter” disappeared.
First Unitarian Church lost both of its “Black Lives Matter” banners in two separate incidents in recent weeks.
A banner that had been dedicated on Sunday, June 19, was reported missing sometime between June 26-28. Then, this past Sunday, July 10, the second banner — which was a replacement — also disappeared.
The alleged theft took place during a turbulent and tragic week when two young black males were killed in confrontations with police in Louisiana and Minnesota, and then five police officers were murdered by a lone sniper in Dallas.