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:
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700 Pound Statue of George Floyd Unveiled in New JerseyAnd that was just the lips.
Hey, it's kinda mean to equate Enver Hoxha with George Floyd. /jk
A real hero, ugh...remind me once again what it was that his achievements were?
it’s the 700 pound gorilla in the room ...
Need some pigeons to add some seasoning to George.
“700 Pound Statue of George Floyd Unveiled in New Jersey”
New Jersey pigeons rejoice!
“Big” crowd.
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Does his family realize what fools they’ve made of themselves? I suspect with a $27 milion pay out for wrongful death they don’t care what people think.
That was LOL material.
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The Radical Left can now happily and devoutly worship at the feet of George Floyd Baal.
The true God Almighty is not in the leftist creed, and hasn't been since the days of Karl Marx. It's a wonder they aren't erecting a statue of Marx to worship, also.
Leni
But marble is white, so that would be racist.
Yep a few bird seeds dropped about each day
will draw a few poppers into the statue.
They should make a statue of Floyd holding a gun to a pregnant woman’s stomach, it would depict him in the way he lived his life
Yes.
It is St George of Fentanyl
Hi lovely lady.
We hope you are doing well.
“It’s a wonder they aren’t erecting a statue of Marx to worship,”
Let’s see, in Germany there are a couple of Marx statues one in Muchen, I forget the other one.
There are statues of Lenin in Seattle and Portland.
We’re going to have to shoot them one day.
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A monument to the criminal class.
ML/NJ
Erect a statue to a career criminal who died of a drug overdose and people wonder why violent crime has gone up so much lately. There are a lot of sick people in this country
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