"Greetings from Richmond" mural vanishes without warning
Why it matters: It was one of the last public displays of the city's 2020 protests, which lasted more than 100 days.
Friction point: No one knows why the mural was taken down on Tuesday.
Muralists Mickael Broth and Ross Trimmer told Axios they weren't notified and found out on social media.
The owner of the flower shop whose building housed the mural said she wasn't alerted either, and showed up to see it being painted over.
That leaves the building owners, Ted and Katie Ukrop, who also own Quirk Hotel down the street.
They didn't respond to multiple requests for comment from Axios.
Catch up quick: The owner of Charm School, an ice cream shop that's now in Forest Hill, commissioned the postcard-style mural in 2016.
Muralists Broth and Trimmer updated it four years later, with moments from the uprisings filling in the word "Richmond."
The "M" had "BLM" projected onto Confederate Gen. Robert. E. Lee's now-taken-down monument. The "O" and "N" showed when Richmond police pepper sprayed protesters.
And the "D" depicted when protesters set a cop car on fire.
Zoom in: The mural had become a photo op for the city for nearly a decade.
Trimmer acknowledged public art isn't supposed to last, but said this one "meant a lot to a lot of people that were there when things were happening."
Broth told Axios he's seen people sharing on social media that they felt like the mural was a fixture in their cityscape.
"And now that's gone."
What we're watching: It's become commonplace for Black Lives Matter murals to fade away, and the latest could be the one in D.C.
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