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Tue Oct 20, 2015, 03:17 AM Oct 2015

Street Artist Defaces Cosby Mural at Ben’s Chili Bowl

https://www.borderstan.com/2015/10/19/street-artist-defaces-cosby-mural-at-bens-chili-bowl/



The Bill Cosby mural at Ben’s Chili Bowl has been defaced. As in, literally.

A street artist going by the name “Smear Leader”affixed the grinning visage of Kim Jong Un on top of Cosby’s head some time within the past 24 hours. The artist took credit for the piece earlier today on Instagaram.

“Instead of looking at a sexual predator, people can celebrate in jubilation that the great leader is now on the their wall,” the post reads. “Eat sh-t Cosby.”

Why Kim Jong Un? As detailed in a recent interview with The Daily Beast, vandalizing things with Kim Jong Un’s face is kind of Smear Leader’s thing.


I haven't been back to the U Street Ben's in a few years. I wonder if they still have Cosby on the list of people who eat for free?
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Street Artist Defaces Cosby Mural at Ben’s Chili Bowl (Original Post) Recursion Oct 2015 OP
Yeah, i wouldnt want him leering down at me, either. Warren DeMontague Oct 2015 #1
A fairly dark alley named after Ben Ali (the Ben of the Chili Bowl), in fact Recursion Oct 2015 #2

Warren DeMontague

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1. Yeah, i wouldnt want him leering down at me, either.
Tue Oct 20, 2015, 03:21 AM
Oct 2015

I hope that thing doesnt look out over a dark alley or something.

Recursion

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2. A fairly dark alley named after Ben Ali (the Ben of the Chili Bowl), in fact
Tue Oct 20, 2015, 03:26 AM
Oct 2015

Though there's now a Whole Foods and about seven Starbuckses within a block, so that part of DC really isn't what it was when I first moved there 20 years ago.

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