This might just look like a bench, but it's actually being seen as a symbol of a greater social issue by a lot of outraged people.

Someone in D.C. is freelancing anti-homeless bench blockers https://t.co/aZ7um6nqvj pic.twitter.com/0397tcEnOt — Will Sommer (@willsommer) April 25, 2017

As you can see, someone nailed down wooden dividers to every bench in Lamont Park in Washington D.C. without authorization, with many citing the act as a perfect example of hostile architecture.

What is “hostile architecture?”

As Popular Science explained, hostile architecture involves making public spaces “intentionally repellent,” in an effort to discourage “certain uses of spaces and things, often by specific, targeted demographics.”