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.
How is this news?
It exposes that there is a resistance that needs to be crushed.
Yep, did it herself. Bet if they tested the paint, it’d be the same.
Cancel culture
SOOOOOO—what is the threshold on the number of counterfeit bills a business is supposed to accept quietly from the criminals.????
The artist did it
Didn’t hear the artist speaking but the scarf around the throat makes me suspicious.
WRONG!
George Floyd died “IN” the hands of police from a drug overdoes AFTER committing a petty crime.....
the mural should reflect the cost of drug related deaths... a fake $20 bill had nothing to do with his death....
A serious mistake. One of the reasons we're going to hell is due to de-emphasizing "quality of life" crimes.
Toppling the Founding Fathers statues is a patriotic protest.../s
Since fentanyl played a part in Floyd’s death, perhaps another mural of a Red Chinese yuan note alongside the original mural would suffice.
Maybe not. There are people who want to cancel King because he used the term "Negro," which was actually widely used during most of his time.
I wonder if she got paid by cash or check from the city council(taxpayers)for the additional man hours of work?.......
Not to criticize real art but the “Xs” look too clinical and calculated. I thought that the “Xs” would be better if they were wider and more haphazard like a bad spray can job. Kind of like the “Xed” eyes one would see in a comic.
Paging Mueller and the doj....
I wouldn’t dream of flaming you! The ties to ghetto culture are all too obvious.
Thank you!
Most of them don’t file police reports for that very reason. If she didn’t want the notoriety, this wouldn’t be a story.
I agree. The catastrophic failure of a dam always begins with a few small leaky drips, which, if not dealt with when they first appear, will inevitably lead to the collapse of the whole dam.
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