Allegheny College Defends Their 'Kill Cops' Art Display As A Call For Peace

Allegheny College administrators said the student's painting with the words "KILL COPS" was actually a call for peace.

Meadville, PA – Administrators at a private college in Pennsylvania have said that a student’s painting emblazoned with the words “KILL COPS” was not an endorsement for violence against police.

Allegheny College officials claimed the painting was taken out of context.

The vibrantly-colored painting was prominently displayed in a hallway at Allegheny College, the Meadville City Fraternal Order of Police said in a Facebook post.

“It is known that some employees of Allegheny asked administrators for the picture to be removed because of the Kill Cops portion,” the FOP explained. “Their request was ignored even with a warning that the depiction could be inflammatory.”

The FOP also posted two photos of the painting, so that viewers could “judge the ‘context’ of this work” for themselves, the post read.

The purpose of the painting was to depict urban street art and to call for an end to violence, the anonymous 20-year-old student who created the painting told WJET

I believe that my piece has been taken completely out of context, specifically the one that contains the words 'kill cops,'” he said. “They were stripped away of the totality of the rest of the competition [and] the meaning behind it.”

The student did not explain how the painting could be interpreted differently.

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