ADOn Monday, the Florida Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers called on the state’s 8th Circuit Court chief justice to immediately remove the mural from the Baker County Courthouse. “And to depict something in a courthouse mural that is the antithesis of that is just not appropriate. Barber wrote a guidebook describing his historical depiction in each of the painting’s 43 panels, archived by the Baker County Historical Society. ADLast week, they marched outside the courthouse again, and then voiced their opposition to the courthouse mural during a county commissioners’ meeting on July 7. “Some say it was the artist’s intent to show the bad side of Baker County.

Source: Washington Post July 14, 2020 10:46 UTC