The mural, which covers two city blocks, was painted in 2020. A jackhammer began chipping away at the bright yellow letters on Monday morning.

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

Mayor Muriel Bowser, a Democrat, ordered the painting and renamed the intersection Black Lives Matter Plaza as a public act of defiance in June 2020