By Lilah Hosni –
After six months in jail, the woman who spread black paint over the Black Lives Matter street sign in New York City and demanded the police be refunded was released to her husband and 2-year-old daughter, pardoned by Trump from a 41-month sentence for ministering outside an abortion clinic.
“They placed me in a social trash can,” remarked Bevelyn Williams.
President Trump called the previous administration’s prosecution of 23 pro-lifers “unjust” and “disgraceful.” Bevelyn was sentenced to 41 months in jail – a long sentence for “blocking” the entrance to a clinic in New York. Bevelyn says she was “ministering” to ladies.
Bevelyn herself got three abortions as a young lady when she didn’t know what they were. Her first was forced by her dad when she was 15. “My dad made me have the abortion,” she says. “At that time, I really didn’t understand what an abortion was, but I knew it was wrong.”
Born on Staten Island, New York, Bevelyn was molested and abused as a child of instability and turmoil of “broken culture.” In jail for money laundering, she met a woman who prophesied to her about her past hurts and her need to repent. Upon release, Bevelyn embarked on a life of serving Jesus, joining a non profit to aid girls like her confused and without Jesus.
She is never afraid to enter the fray. Before her controversial stance against abortion that landed her in jail, Bevelyn was a vocal anti-BLM activist.
The Black Lives Matter shot to national prominence after the death of George Floyd and the resulting nationwide protests against racism and excessive force by police. At the time of the 2020 election that saw Trump lose to Biden, hundreds of thousands streamed the streets. “Defund the police,” was one of the rallying cries.
In New York City, “Black Lives Matter” was painted on the street right outside the Trump Towers. Bevelyn, who now lives in Ooltewah, Tennessee, traveled to her native New York and poured cans of black paint over the yellow lettering.
Black Lives Matter was associated with witchcraft and Marxism, according to its leaders. Among the acts at public demonstrations, they told people to “say his name,” which seems like an innocent memorial but really, according to the African native religion infused ideas of BLM, invoke their spirits to rise from the dead and actually be present.
Also, BLM pushed to defund the police, a measure that left poor, minority-dominated neighborhoods without police protection.
When standers-by objected to the paint Bevelyn was spreading over the yellow letters on the street of New York City, she responded sharply, “Refund the police!” and “Jesus matters!”
She was arrested and charged with criminal mischief and released the same day, immediately after which she defaced similar Black Lives Matter street murals in Harlem and in Brooklyn.
Bevelyn joined the fight against abortion.
In June 2020, she staged protests outside Planned Parenthood of Manhattan. She was arrested for allegedly blocking an entrance, in violation of the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act. Her trial in February 2024 sentenced her to 41 months in jail.
She was pardoned on Jan. 23, 2025 as one of the first acts of the new president, who characterized the application of the law as a suppression of free speech and as political persecution.
