Couple Accused Of Defacing Martinez BLM Mural Facing Burglary, Drug Charges

By CBS San Francisco Staff:

CONTRA COSTA COUNTY (CBS SF) — The couple caught on video painting over a Black Lives Matter mural in Martinez in 2020 is now facing felony burglary and drug charges following an arrest late last year.

David Nelson and Nicole Anderson are scheduled to be tried on vandalism and civil rights violation charges for covering up the street mural outside the Martinez courthouse in 2020.

Anderson and Nelson were recorded on video in July while trying to cover the freshly completed mural in front of the Wakefield Taylor Courthouse on Court Street in downtown Martinez.

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