Crews have begun work to remove the large yellow “Black Lives Matter” painted on the street one block from the White House. D.C.

The 50-foot-wide mural sporting the term "Black Lives Matter" was created in Washington, D.C., following the 2020 death of George Floyd.

D.C. began dismantling Black Lives Matter Plaza on Monday, less than a week after Mayor Muriel Bowser announced it would be transformed. Why it matters: The mural near the White House went up in summer 2020 to protest police brutality and as a rebuke to President Trump in his first term.