New York Post

Pro-police BLM vandal in triple play

- By TINA MOORE, JORGE FITZ-GIBBON and LARRY CELONA

The woman busted for dumping paint on the Black Lives Matter street mural outside Trump Tower livestream­ed the entire stunt — and was at it again just hours later in Harlem and Brooklyn.

Bevelyn Beatty, 29, posted videos to her Facebook page showing her smearing paint on all three murals, then gloated about it from home on yet another video.

“Y’all, we did an allnighter,” she says in one video.

“Let me tell you something: Yesterday was epic.”

Beatty is first seen on video in Manhattan at around 3 p.m. Saturday going through more than a dozen cans of paint in the back of a van while two other women assist her.

A cop looks on and questions her — but does nothing to intervene.

“What are you guys doing with all that paint?” the unidentifi­ed officer asks. “Decorating,” Beatty says. “Decorating? Probably not the decorating we’re thinking of, right?” the officer says. “What are you decorating?”

“I’m black,” Beatty answers. “I’mma paint it black.”

She can then be seen picking up one of the cans, walking past the cop across Fifth Avenue and to the mural, where she dumps the paint on the bright-yellow BLM letters while yelling as several passersby look on.

“Black Lives Matter. Black Lives Matter, right?” Beatty says. “For the black people. This is for the black people. They’re destroying business for black people. They’re looting for black people.

“No,” she says. “No. We’re not standing with Black Lives Matter. We want our police. Refund our police.”

Beatty, of Staten Island, was arrested and charged with criminal mischief, but was free just hours later — and back to work.

A later video posted to her Facebook page shows Beatty and crew pouring paint out of the same minivan as it rolls over a mural at Seventh Avenue and West 125th Street.

“What’s wrong with you?” a man is heard yelling.

In a third video posted early Sunday, Beatty and another woman dump black paint on another mural on Fulton Street in Brooklyn.

“Ladies and gentlemen, we’re in Brooklyn and it ain’t over,” she says. “Jesus matters. We’re taking our country back. We’re taking it back. And let me tell you something: The police need our help. They can’t stand alone.

“Stand with your police force, vote for Trump, vote Republican, vote for Christians, and stand up, Christians,” she continues.

 ??  ?? ‘EPIC’: Bevelyn Beatty smears paint on the BLM mural in Midtown — before doing the same in Harlem and Brooklyn.
‘EPIC’: Bevelyn Beatty smears paint on the BLM mural in Midtown — before doing the same in Harlem and Brooklyn.

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