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Residents Become Angry Over Video Game Billboard

Residents Become Angry Over Video Game Billboard

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Residents of Bowie, Maryland have demonstrated angry responses to billboards advertising True Crime: New York City.

According to the Bowie Blade, the billboard depicts “a New York City skyline drenched in red, with the prominent graphic being that of a computer-generated young African American male pointing a gun, seemingly directed at traffic.” The description sounds very similar to the game cover.

A “horrified parent” of a student at a local school spoke to the headmistress, Frances Lucket, concerning the billboard. Lucket commented that she was concerned over the “fact that the school builds character and respect, and then we have something that in a very big way highlights something completely opposite (of that goal) that hundreds of people can see every day driving by.”

Mayor G. Frederick Robinson and City Manager David Deutsch persuaded Clear Channel, the owner of the sign, to take down the billboard. This is the second billboard to voluntarily be taken down in the Bowie area. The third billboard has ironically been slashed almost beyond recognition.

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