So you are giving up on the "just a poor victim" shtick.
I notice you quietly avoid the fact that the mosaic was probably stolen.
Asserting it was stolen ... not a probably, only a possibility. Anyone can assert anything and these days theres a whole cultural artifacts belongs to the legal abstraction of the society thing so that they cannot leave even if they can be traded around locally ... there are people who would call exporting things stealing based on that.
Also, Floyd didnt commit armed robbery. He passed a bogus bill. He didnt go to jail but seems to have died from drugs and preexisting conditions. You must be referring to someone else but have Floyd on the Brain like so many folks. So actually no big, typos happen and stuff like that there.
As for lying to the government, why not? It doesnt obey the Constitution and is not legitimate for much of what it lawlessly does as a result. It also lies to the people all the time: never trust it even when you can verify.
Our founding fathers knew better than to trust central government to do anything more than what it alone could do that the States couldnt do. People trusting it and faithless men like FDR is what enabled it to grow into the obscenity it is. Wed be better off in cases like this not caring and not taxing and therefore not having whole layers of unnecessary federal government.