A city of San Mateo public art program shut down entirely after one political artist’s depictions of police brutality stirred up controversy among the public and various city departments.
The Bay Area-based political artist, Diego Marcial Rios, says his art was censored after two of his 20 paintings hung up in San Mateo’s City Hall offended the San Mateo Police Department.
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