Posted on 06/20/2021 12:14:50 PM PDT by rktman
A New Jersey city offered a tribute to George Floyd Wednesday by unveiling a 700-pound bronze statue of him outside Newark’s City Hall.
Mayor Ras Baraka and other officials attended the ceremony where it was presented, WPIX reported.
“Hopefully it inspires those who walk by to be more active, take part in activism,” Baraka commented.
Actor and filmmaker Leon Pickney commissioned the statue that was sculpted by artist Stanley Watts. The piece was donated to the city and will be on display for at least one year, the WPIX report said.
Pix 11 shared video footage of the unveiling ceremony, showing attendees pulling a tarp off the statue:
“The world needed a peaceful George. The world needed him relaxed and chilling, on a bench, and that’s what we produced,” Watts said.
In May, Lakers star LeBron James added his voice to others in the NBA who urged Congress to pass the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act, describing Floyd as a man who “literally changed the world.” Breitbart News reported:
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
If you are a policeman of any color, you are EIGHTEEN TIMES MORE LIKELY TO BE MURDERED BY A BLACK MAN THAN A BLACK MAN IS LIKELY TO BE KILLED BY A POLICE OFFICER.
Yeah. Too bad the real George Floyd did not live that kind of life.
Hop down there and spray paint it with “ALAB.” After all, it’s the thing these days to deface statues.
“The world needed a peaceful George.”
Isn’t that what Chauvin kinda did?
700 pound statue of rotting doqsqueezins...
Or spray paint ABLMAB on it.
the woman in the red is about as big as that statue
“ “The world needed a peaceful George.”
Well, regardless of what one thinks about his death, there is no denying that George Floyd wasn’t exactly a peaceful George.
But, of course, we live in a time where a statue of George Washington gets torn down by an angry mob, so this kind of leftist propaganda is to be expected.
Why isn’t it make of marble?
He was always stoned....
The guy was like Gandhi.
Is he nominated for the Nobel peace prize yet ?
the old saying pops up:
“didn’t know they could pile shiite that high”
About a month before G.F. died in NYC...
THIS man died while police were arresting him in NJ:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTY_9P7JKtg
Where’s HIS statue in NJ?
Perhaps we need a responsible George.
You know our country is heading down the tubes when people are idolizing career criminals while demonizing law enforcement.
“The world needed a peaceful George. The world needed him relaxed and chilling, on a bench, and that’s what we produced,”
The world needed George Floyd out of society, so it could be peaceful.
The police produced a relaxed and chilling George Floyd.
An honest statue would be of a drug-crazed George Floyd waving a fake $20 bill.
bizarre world we live in, folks.
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