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Muralists Immortalize Protests, Unrest On Canvas Of Downtown's Boarded Storefronts


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On Tuesday night, officers in full riot gear were video recorded destroying a makeshift medic station for protestors along Asheville's Patton Avenue. About a hundred yards away, the following afternoon, Ian Wilkinson, an established muralist in Asheville, immortalized the scene on a boarded up storefront along Lexington Avenue. "This is our job," Wilkinson said in between applying bursts of spray paint on a board beneath the awning of Asheville Hemp Farms. "We're used to kinda creating this
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