A display at Dartmouth College honoring law enforcement officers was removed Friday and replaced with Black Lives Matter signs after just one day, members of the Dartmouth College Republicans said.
(FOX)- In place of the “Blue Lives Matter” tribute, which was created during National Police Week, were four fliers reading: “You cannot co-opt the movement against state violence to memorialize its perpetrators. #blacklivesmatter,” The Dartmouth Review reported.
“The next morning we got up and we saw that our display was torn apart and replaced with Black Lives Matter posters,” Dartmouth College Republicans President Michelle Knesbach told Fox News on Monday.
Knesbach said the activism went beyond the billboard revamp.
“Throughout the entirety of the day, 25 Black Lives Matter protesters were standing in front of billboards,” she told On the Record’s Greta Van Susteren. “Not only did they replace our billboard with their display, they also replaced all of the other billboards in the student center with Black Lives Matter posters and posted pictures of our club members’ faces with ‘Sons of Old Dartmouth’ written over it.”
The College Republicans were not allowed to replace the police display due to “safety and security” concerns, Knesbach said. School administrators reportedly didn’t respond and condemn the incident until two days later.