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Vandals spray graffiti on George Floyd mural in Phoenix
12News (Phoenix) ^ | March 30, 2021 | Niala Charles

Posted on 03/31/2021 7:59:34 AM PDT by Towed_Jumper

A vandal defaced a George Floyd mural in the Valley on the first day of the contentious Derek Chauvin trial.

The tagger sprayed the word “fentanyl” on Floyd’s face along with X’s over his eyes and mouth.

Jeremie Bacpac painted the mural near 16th Street and Thomas Road nearly a year ago.

“Have to fix that message. That was my first reaction. The purpose is to have a conversation about this,” said Bacpac.

The mural shows George Floyd’s face on a $20 bill below the words the price of Black lives.

“To the cops, his life was worth a counterfeit $20 bill,” said Bacpac.

George Floyd died at the hands of police after a grocery store employee accused him of paying with a fake $20 bill.

The tagging happened the same day the defense argued that illegal drugs and a heart condition killed Floyd. Prosecutors argue that Floyd would still be alive if now-former officer, Derek Chauvin, hadn’t put his knee on Floyd’s neck.

On Tuesday, Bacpac spent hours fixing her mural in hopes of retaining the original message.

“Go by there and say what does that $20 bill means,” said Bacpac.

This time she added a new addition. The new mural has her silhouette with a spray can next to Floyd.

She said it means, “if you come back and do it again I’m here.”

Bacpac said she hasn’t reported the crime to the police because she doesn’t want to give the vandal any notoriety.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; US: Arizona
KEYWORDS: arizona; floyd; mural
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Poor Saint George can't get no respect!

Make sure to take a look of the "artist" in the video. It will explain a lot.

1 posted on 03/31/2021 7:59:34 AM PDT by Towed_Jumper
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To: Towed_Jumper

Do it again, do it again, harder, harder!


2 posted on 03/31/2021 8:01:38 AM PDT by JonPreston (Q: Never have so many, been so wrong, so often)
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YES!!!! Talk about LONG OVERDUE!!!! Do it again and again, not only to his, but other memorials to black trash that have been wrongly made into martyrs!!!!


3 posted on 03/31/2021 8:05:18 AM PDT by PhineasSpear (PhineasSpear)
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To: Towed_Jumper
“Have to fix that message. That was my first reaction. The purpose is to have a conversation about this,” said Bacpac.

When they say they want a conversation, they don't want a conversation; they want you to shut up and accept their version of untruths.

4 posted on 03/31/2021 8:06:43 AM PDT by libertylover (Many people who want to destroy us have bumper stickers on their cars that say: "Coexist".)
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To: Towed_Jumper

Arizonans aren’t very much into ass-kissing criminals. Murals to dog turds aren’t very popular there.


5 posted on 03/31/2021 8:07:32 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (You can vote your way into socialism but you have to shoot your way out of it.)
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To: Towed_Jumper
The Propaganda Media ABCCBSCNNNBCNPRNYTWAPO has repeatedly referred to such act as protests, not vandalism.

These are not vandals, they're protesters.

6 posted on 03/31/2021 8:07:38 AM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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To: JonPreston

And if you do it again, she comes back and fixes it and paints another silhouette with a spray can beside the first. Kinda like fighter aces put their record of kills by their cockpit. This could get very entertaining.


7 posted on 03/31/2021 8:08:12 AM PDT by 17th Miss Regt
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“Bacpac said she hasn’t reported the crime to the police because she doesn’t want to give the vandal any notoriety.”

I bet a bag of donuts she defaced the mural herself to gain fame.


8 posted on 03/31/2021 8:10:16 AM PDT by setter
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This time she added a new addition. The new mural has her silhouette with a spray can next to Floyd. She said it means, “if you come back and do it again I’m here.”

It means...I crave attention and have no real accomplishments in life.

9 posted on 03/31/2021 8:10:43 AM PDT by BookmanTheJanitor
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Another idea is to paint a rebus onto the mural. A shark fin, the number ‘10’ and a pic of a sick person.

Fin-ten-ill.


10 posted on 03/31/2021 8:12:05 AM PDT by 17th Miss Regt
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“I bet a bag of donuts she defaced the mural herself to gain fame.”

That was my first thought too.

11 posted on 03/31/2021 8:12:45 AM PDT by circlecity
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To: Towed_Jumper

Here comes the riots.


12 posted on 03/31/2021 8:12:48 AM PDT by glimmerman70
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To: PhineasSpear

“YES!!!! Talk about LONG OVERDUE!!!!”

Defacing and destroying is uncivilized but this if one side defaces and destroys they can expect the other side to do it also.

At least my side hasn’t toppled a Martin Luther King statue and I hope they never do, but as has been said, the arc of history ends at revenge.


13 posted on 03/31/2021 8:18:14 AM PDT by cymbeline
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LOL! Great post! I'm glad there are still some folks with a sense of humor in this great country!

RIP GEORGE FENTANYL FLOYD x x

14 posted on 03/31/2021 8:18:45 AM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie
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And there are folks that say extraterrestrial life doesn’t exist...

WOW...


15 posted on 03/31/2021 8:18:52 AM PDT by L,TOWM (An upraised middle finger is my virtue signal.)
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To: Towed_Jumper

That, uh, “artist” is nightmare material.


16 posted on 03/31/2021 8:20:25 AM PDT by chrisser
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17 posted on 03/31/2021 8:21:57 AM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie
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To: Towed_Jumper

You can flame me but I think these so-called murals turn the neighborhoods into a ghetto culture.


18 posted on 03/31/2021 8:26:18 AM PDT by hsmomx3
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To: setter

“She”? Not sure about that. Looks and talks like a “Transformer”.


19 posted on 03/31/2021 8:26:29 AM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear (RIP my "teddy bear". )
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WTF is that creature that painted the mural?


20 posted on 03/31/2021 8:47:38 AM PDT by Tommy Revolts
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