Controversial Mural Moved

Protests over a mural hung in a Milwaukee courthouse have resulted in the art being moved to a much less prominent place. “When the mural – commissioned by Marquette University’s Haggerty Museum of Art as a pictorial history of the Watts area of Los Angeles from the 1965 riots to today – was first hung on the first floor of the courthouse Friday, the work triggered complaints from sheriff’s deputies and other officers, who objected to what they saw as the mural’s anti-law-enforcement images, including the Rodney King case. Court officials raised concerns that the work’s bold images could bias prospective jurors.”