STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Skylar, the 21-year-old college student responsible for writing Black Lives Matter over local artist Scott LoBaidos thin-blue line NYPD tribute outside the departments 122nd Precinct stationhouse in New Dorp, said she stenciled over the line to push back against the divisiveness she says it stands for.

It seemed like a direct response to the Black Lives Matter mural, and it didnt sit right with me, said Skylar, who declined to provide her last name while standing outside the precinct on Tuesday with a small group of protestors.

After seeing LoBaido create the blue line on the Advance/SILive.com, Syklar said she went to her garage and began creating stencils to use and then I just did it.

Many people drove by, cursing at me, telling me to get out,' get off the Island,' you hate America,' but thats not the case, she said. I did it because I love this country and I see the potential in this country, so thats why I did it.

The small group of protestors who gathered on Tuesday, some of whom held signs that read, Black Lives Matter, received verbal barbs from passing motorists. One driver said, go home. Others hurled profanities.

Skylar, however, said the Black Lives Matter movement doesnt mean that police lives dont matter, doesnt mean that white lives dont matter. It doesnt mean any of that stuff.

Black lives are not treated the same way, she said. If Black lives matter, we all win, because we all matter then. Then all lives matter. Thats the third step were on the first step.

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21-year-old who wrote Black Lives Matter over blue line details decision: I did it because I love this country'

LoBaido, who recently held a police rally at the 122nd Precinct, painted the blue line along the divider on Hylan Boulevard that runs from Bancroft Avenue to Lincoln Avenue. He said the tribute, isnt anti-BLM, adding that the subtle and simple piece of art is meant to stand as a sign of support for the NYPD.

He re-painted the line on Tuesday the same day he unveiled an anti-de Blasio banner on the overpass of the Staten Island expressway, which depicted the mayor wearing a Che Guevara t-shirt while holding up the seemingly-decapitated head of the Statue of Liberty.

The banner hung off the Fingerboard Road overpass of the expressway. LoBaido had to remove the artwork shortly after unfurling it.

While the thin blue line remained untouched on the Hylan Boulevard median as of Tuesday night, Skylar said her future plans are to be determined.

Anti-de Blasio artwork created by Scott LoBaido hangs from the Fingerboard Road exit of the Staten Island Expressway. (Staten Island Advance/Tom Wrobleski)Tom Wrobleski/Staten Island Adva

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