“Please remove your black lives matter Marxist anti-American paraphernalia as well as well,” one portion of the letter stated.
16 in Boston, about 60 miles from Breen’s house. It was addressed to “Neighbor” and postmarked Jan. 20, the day of Joe Biden’s presidential inauguration. The letter, which had no return address or signature, was delivered to Breen’s Barrington, Rhode Island, home on Jan. That was until the neighbor’s free speech crossed the property line and spilled over onto Breen’s doorstep recently.īreen received an alarming letter asking her to remove Black Lives Matter flags from her front yard. She planted large Trump signs and flags in front of her home, decorated her yard with fake tombstones for Colin Kaepernick and Hillary Clinton for Halloween, and started sprinkling her garden with #stopthesteal signs after Trump was defeated in last year’s presidential election.īreen, a Black woman, called them “microaggressions.” But she never paid Larrivee much attention, chalking it up as her right to free speech.
The neighbor, Laura Larrivee, is an outspoken supporter of former President Donald Trump. Candace Nadeen Breen ignored her neighbor’s political expressions for years.
