特朗普Dubuque集会前壁画遭篷布遮盖：市府称未经授权、下令撤除
据《得梅因纪事报》（Des Moines Register）报道，美国爱荷华州 Dubuque 市官员已下令撤除一块遮盖市属 Five Flags Civic Center 外墙壁画的篷布。据多家媒体报道，这块篷布是总统特朗普的先遣团队在特朗普 11 月 1 日到该中心举行集会之前挂上的，遮住的是当地艺术家 Shelby Fry 创作的种族团结主题壁画《Solidarity》（团结）。
Dubuque 市府 10 月 31 日（周六）晚间发表声明称，市府从未被征询 Five Flags Civic Center 的外立面「能否被改动」，也没有授权这块篷布。市府表示，已要求运营该中心的私营管理公司 Oak View Group 撤除篷布，该公司已经照办。市府在声明中说：「11 月 1 日周日这场活动的场馆租赁协议，不包含任何改动场馆外立面的授权。」
据当地媒体 Telegraph Herald 转述，Oak View Group 表示该公司没有参与放置篷布，放置者是特朗普的先遣团队。KCRG 电视台报道称，Oak View Group 旗下 Five Flags Center 总经理 Scott Hallgren 表示，白宫方面遮盖壁画的目的是做外立面品牌布置、并挂上美国国旗。
这幅壁画长 105 英尺、宽 28 英尺，位于中心入口旁、面向 Main Street 的一侧外墙。画面是 10 只举起的拳头，肤色包括黑色、棕色与白色，每只拳头的手腕上各有一个字母，连起来拼成「SOLIDARITY」（团结）一词；字母设计中还融入了 Pride 彩虹、残障权利、心理健康与性别多元等象征符号。
壁画由 Dubuque 市府委托创作。艺术家 Shelby Fry 是 Iowa State University 毕业生，她在 2020 年带领 80 名志愿者完成这幅作品；她当年表示，创作灵感来自 2020 年非裔男子 George Floyd 在 Minneapolis 警方执法中死亡后，全美各地不同人群走上街头抗议的场景。时任 Dubuque 市长 Roy D. Buol 当年表示，这幅壁画提醒人们，本市有过种族主义的痛苦记忆，每个人都有责任改善社区的生活质量与公平。
特朗普 11 月 1 日（周日）在 Dubuque 举行集会，这是他在 11 月 3 日（周二）中期选举之前第二次在爱荷华州举行集会；上一场是 10 月 22 日在 Sioux City 举行。
Dubuque Orders Tarp Over Solidarity Mural Removed Ahead of Trump Rally, Saying It Was Never Authorized
Officials in Dubuque, Iowa, have ordered the removal of a tarp that, according to news reports, President Donald Trump's advance team placed over a racial solidarity mural on the city-owned Five Flags Civic Center, where Trump is scheduled to speak on November 1, the Des Moines Register reported.
The tarp drew wide attention on social media on Saturday, October 31, the day before Trump's appearance, after it was draped over Dubuque artist Shelby Fry's "Solidarity" mural, which covers one side of the center. The city said in a statement late Saturday that it was not asked whether the exterior of the Five Flags Civic Center could be modified and did not authorize the tarp. It said it had ordered Oak View Group, the private management company that operates the center, to remove the tarp, and that the company had done so. "The facility rental agreement for the Sunday, November 1, event does not include any authority to modify the exterior of the facility," the city said.
Eastern Iowa media, including the Dubuque newspaper the Telegraph Herald, quoted Oak View Group as saying it had not been involved in placing the tarp, which was the work of Trump's advance team. KCRG-TV reported that Scott Hallgren, general manager of the Five Flags Center for Oak View Group, said the White House's goal in covering the mural was to provide exterior branding and put up a U.S. flag.
The mural, 105 feet long and 28 feet wide, faces Dubuque's Main Street next to the center's entrance. It depicts 10 raised Black, brown and White fists, each bearing a letter on the wrist; together they spell out the word "SOLIDARITY." The stylized letters also include symbols such as a Pride rainbow and emblems for disability rights, mental health and gender diversity.
The mural was commissioned by the city. Fry, an Iowa State University graduate, created it in 2020 with the help of 80 volunteers. In a statement that year, she said it was inspired by the diverse crowds that came together across the nation to protest in the wake of the 2020 death of George Floyd, a Black man, at the hands of Minneapolis police. Then-Mayor Roy D. Buol said at the time that the mural recognizes that the community's local legacy of racism conjured painful memory, and that everyone has a role to play in improving quality of life and equity in the community.
Trump is staging a rally in Dubuque on Sunday, November 1, the second he has held in Iowa ahead of the midterm elections on Tuesday, November 3. He held a rally in Sioux City on October 22.
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图片来源：图：事发场馆 Five Flags Center（Five Flags Theater）外观资料照片，壁画位于该中心另一侧外墙。Djh57 摄，CC BY-SA 3.0，经 Wikimedia Commons。 / File photo: the Five Flags Center (Five Flags Theater) in Dubuque; the mural is on another exterior wall of the center. Photo by Djh57, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
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