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A New Hampshire town's attempt to force a bakery to remove or alter its painting that shows sunbeams shining down on a mountain range of doughnuts, a muffin, a cinnamon roll and other pastries is unconstitutional, a judge ruled in a First Amendment dispute. The town of Conway infringed on the free speech rights of bakery owner Sean Young, U.S. District Judge Joseph Laplante ruled Monday, following a one-day trial in February. He ordered the town to stop any efforts at enforcing its sign code regarding the mural painted by high school students atop Leavitt's Country Bakery, mentioning a "complete...

Lakers star Luka Dončić donated the entire amount requested on a GoFundMe drive to restore a vandalized mural in downtown Los Angeles that was created as a tribute to the team’s late Hall of Famer Kobe Bryant and his daughter Gianna “Gigi” Bryant. The mural located on Main Street near West 14th Street was created by artist Louie “Sloe” Motion shortly after Kobe, Gigi and seven others were killed in a helicopter crash in January 2020. Video recorded Tuesday morning showed graffiti spray-painted over most of the mural, which had shown the Hall of Fame basketball star kissing his smiling...

‘The New York Times put out a photo today of the walls of Quantico, the FBI academy, where they were painting over the FBI’s core values to include integrity, adherence to the Constitution and diversity,’ he said. Fairness, compassion, diversity and respect are just some of the words that were painted over with a much duller, gray color. ‘A less diverse FBI is a less effective FBI,’ he claimed.

A Seattle man was arrested and could face 10 years in prison for doing burnouts on an LGBTQ+ mural. Ivan Barzul, 21, was taken into custody Tuesday at his home in Renton after being accused of vandalizing the City’s LGBTQ+ Pride art piece, and nearly hitting pedestrians and cars as he did so. He's accused of committing the crime on three different occasions - July 14, September 7 and September 15 - at the mural, according to the Bellevue Police Department. Barzul was arrested for three counts of malicious mischief (first-degree vandalism), and three counts of reckless driving. He could...

This is really cool. Pharr, Texas Pharr is a suburb of McAllen, Texas in Hidalgo County, Texas, United States. As of the 2020 census, the city population was 79,715, and in 2022, the estimated population was 80,187. VIDEO @ LINK..................

Kamala Harris is so finished that she is already being erased from memory. A mural of Harris that was painted on the side of a building in Atlanta, Georgia has already been painted over.

Diversity bosses in Washington state accused a student council of promoting white supremacy for suggesting a mural of hammer-wielding Norse god Thor could represent their school team. Students at Mountain View High School in Vancouver offered a mural of the god - whose name translates as 'thunder' - to decorate a wall in a newly renovated building as their senior gift. Its team is nicknamed 'The Thunders' and there is already a Thor statue in the school's main entrance. But the AI image they came up with horrified the district's equity office which demanded the god be removed or accompanied...

A 19-year-old man accused of vandalizing an LGBTQ+ pride mural in Delray Beach pleaded not guilty on Thursday, though only after some confusion in court led the judge to issue a warrant for his arrest. Dylan Brewer of Clearwater was arrested on Feb. 12, a week after police said he performed burnouts on the pride mural in a dark pickup truck with a President Donald Trump flag attached. Witnesses and surveillance cameras recorded the incident, Brewer and the license plate, but Brewer left before officers arrived, according to the probable cause affidavit. He faces one count of felony criminal mischief...

Santa Cruz police say they are “pretty confident” they have identified the vandal who threw blue paint across the downtown Black Lives Matter mural in July, and hope to make an arrest within a few weeks.

SANTA CRUZ, Calif. — Police in Santa Cruz are investigating after the Black Lives Matter mural was vandalized sometime Saturday. The city of Santa Cruz said they first received a report of the damage around 6 p.m. City officials said Black Lives Matter's A and C letters had been covered with blue paint. “This is deeply disappointing and completely contradictory to the values the City holds dear,” said City Manager Matt Huffaker.

A mural painted by a student at a Michigan middle school has sparked outrage for featuring a child wearing a transgender flag and a face of a demon. The mural also features a creature holding a syringe, a girl in a rainbow outfit, and the Hamsa hand — which alarmed parents said was a sign of witchcraft.

A mural featuring founding father and first U.S. President George Washington including images of slaves will not be removed after a reconfigured San Francisco school board reversed the earlier board’s decision. Three board members were rejected in February and the board voted 4-3 on Wednesday to nullify the decision over the mural on display at Washington High School. The move comes after almost three years of legal battles and debate over the 1,600-foot mural, a 1936 fresco, painted on wet plaster, the work of Russian artist Victor Arnautoff, commissioned as part of the Works Progress Administration public art program. Social...

Uh, oh! The Taliban have REALLY done it now! They’ve finally managed to REALLY trigger the progressive left! They had the gall to destroy a George Floyd mural in Kabul! I kid you not! Of course, that begs the question: what the heck was a George Floyd monument doing in Kabul in the first place? Well, that’s what we’re going to answer in this video! We’re going to look at what the Taliban did, we’re going to see how the American mission went from bringing democracy to Afghanistan to bringing progressive leftwing values, and stick with me to the very...

A giant mural including a Black Lives Matter-style fist in New Jersey was partially whitewashed soon after it was finished following a flood of complaints, according to the artist. May Yuasa, 19, told NorthJersey.com that she spent 60 hours painting the mural on a Garden State Parkway underpass in Clifton last week after getting permission from City Manager Dominick Villano. But she was told that the part showing the fist quickly led to complaints — and Villano sent city workers to paint a white box over the offending image, he confirmed to the outlet. That decision sparked further outrage —...

In a press release from the police department, it says, "Detectives were able to obtain video of the crime, in which a vehicle is seen intentionally 'burning out' and applying tire tread marks across the length of the mural."

A George Floyd mural in Toledo, Ohio, was destroyed by what witnesses say was a lightning strike, police told WTVG-TV. What are the details? The building wall upon which the mural was painted collapsed, the station said, adding that WTVG's Doppler radar showed a lightning strike around 4:30 p.m. Tuesday in the block where the building — which used to house the Mugshots Bar — is located. In the aftermath, the station said Toledo police were seen outside the building and setting up tape around the pile of bricks upon which the artwork was crafted. The building itself is structurally...

Toledo’s George Floyd mural at Summit and Lagrange collapsed today. A city building inspector says it was “just age. It just came away.” They had noticed it bowing recently. pic.twitter.com/pXcFqfznFc — Kaitlin Durbin (@njKaitlinDurbin) July 13, 2021 Local media reports that the ‘north Toledo mural has been reduced to rubble’ after being struck by lightning. Fire and rescue responded to the site of the mural, but were unable to render aid to the collapsed wall featuring Floyd’s face. UPDATE: Witnesses have told authorities that the George Floyd mural was struck by lightning before it collapsed. https://t.co/u0QHZVh7Zp — WTVG 13abc (@13abc)...

A George Floyd mural in Toledo, Ohio was destroyed by a lightning strike Tuesday afternoon, according to witnesses. WTVG reported their Doppler Radar did show a lightning strike on the same block as the George Floyd mural at 4:30 this afternoon. The lightning strike, which hit directly on George Floyd’s face, reduced the mural to a pile of bricks.

A mural of the late Black Lives Matter icon George Floyd has been struck by lightning and has collapsed. Eyewitnesses confirmed that nobody was near the mural when it was struck nor when its pieces fell to the ground. The Toledo mural, completed in June 2020, was struck by lightning in the middle of the day on Tuesday, leaving a charred wall where Floyd’s face was before. It was a direct hit; artwork to the left and right of the mural appeared unblemished.

DELRAY BEACH, Fla. — A Florida man was arrested after he intentionally did a “burnout” across a Pride-themed street mural earlier this week. Witnesses said Alexander Jerich, 20, peeled out in his white Chevrolet Silverado around 8 p.m. Monday through the recently painted intersection, WPBF reported. “This is a deliberate act of violence against the LGBTQ community,” Rand Hoch, founder and president of the Palm Beach Human Rights Council, told WFOR. “We’ve made such progress here in the last 30 years on LGBTQ issues. To see someone do something like this took me by surprise.” Jerich was participating in a...