US Lightning? Disrepair? Conflicting reports on what may have caused George Floyd mural to collapse - God has smote the George Floyd mural

Witnesses: George Floyd mural at Summit and Lagrange destroyed by lightning strike​

[Initially posted this in the pinned "smaller stories" thread, but this is kind of a big story]

TOLEDO, Ohio (WTVG) - A mural honoring George Floyd erected at Summit and Lagrange in Toledo has collapsed. According to Toledo Police, witnesses say it was destroyed by a lightning strike. 13abc’s Doppler Radar did show a lightning strike in that block at about 4:30 PM this afternoon.

Toledo police were seen outside the building, which used to house the Mugshots Bar, setting up tape around the pile of bricks that once formed the artwork.

The George Floyd Memorial mural at Summit and Lagrange in Toledo has come down. No word yet on the circumstances #13abc pic.twitter.com/SkB2eDhijB
— Shaun Hegarty (@Shaun_Hegarty) July 13, 2021

The mural was painted nearly one year to the date of its collapse in July 2020. Groups have held memorial services for Floyd in front of the mural, including on the one-year anniversary of his death at the hands of Minneapolis Police Officer Derek Chauvin. Chauvin was later convicted of murder and sentenced to 22.5 years in prison.

The building itself is structurally sound, according to a City of Toledo building inspector. The building’s owner is working to clean up the bricks and tear down the rest of the mural wall.

The city of Toledo has already released a statement on the mural, saying they will work with the arts commission on planning for a new mural, or help the commission and the artist find a new location, adding that they were heartbroken to see artist David Ross’s work collapse.

 

[No. 7 cat]

God is great and He's telling us that Fetanyl Floyd is no saint.

Edit as many have said, although they said little on God's greatness.

 

[Bell Peppers and Beef]

Too bad that people's taxes are going to be used to rebuild it in short order.

Even more so if lightning does strike twice in the same area of the mural.

 

[Hollywood Hitler]

Thank God for showing us a sign that George Floyd is in Hell where he belongs.

 

[pedoguyguykrai]

if we go even a bit a further this kind of proves that the left antifags and blm has lost the mandate of heaven and we should feel morally obligated to take over the usa by shit posting. 3 kingdoms style.

 

[Sopressata]

I fully expect the FBI to create a special task force to investigate God as a right wing extremist

 

[The handsome tard]

"WE PRAY TO OUR NEW SAINT, GEORGE FLOYD!"
God: Oooohhhohoohohoh!- I dont think so...Allow me to go Old Testament on your "saint".

 

[like_shutup_&_drive_scoob]

As a Christian speaking her thoughts on this:

Spoiler

I myself wonder at this... clearly this seems like it was an act of God because of the sacrilege surrounding George Floyd, 'he was like Jesus/SAY HIS NAME/PRAISE HIS NAME/CALL ON HIS SPIRIT FOR STRENGTH' That's the sort of pagan, death worshipping nonsense that BLM has been screeching in the streets since last summer.

No wonder something like this happened. Just because we are no longer in the old or even the new testament does not mean that acts of God and His influence in nature cannot occur.

I wonder if our country were not so spiritually dead... would we see modern miracles more openly and more often?

 

[kcbbq]

Gil Scott-Heron. Black poet and singer. Most famous for The Revolution Will Not Be Televised. He also is the dude sampled on Kanye's Lost in the World and Who Will Survive in America.

I don't know what's more pleasing. God smiting the mural or God leaving Scott-Heron out of the destruction in His inscrutable wisdom.

 

[Fomo Hoire]

Intriguing.

I didn't think lightning did that much damage, I thought that it passed through inanimate objects into the ground. Maybe lit stuff on fire. I didn't think it made bricks fall apart. I want to assume actually someone destroyed the wall.

I also assume lightning hits the tallest nost conductive thing, so maybe the roof or lamppost but not the wall.

But the witnesses say they saw it, this wasn't an unobserved overnight thing. Also the damage appears to be pretty deep and pretty high. Normal vandals would bring spray paint and a ladder if they lucky, not a pickaxe and a ladder.

But the witnesses could be lying to protect the vandals, it's not like being cowed into silence is unheard of in current year.

But would the kind of community that would defend the vandals and blame God have allowed the mural to go up in the first place? They wouldn't lie like that, lightning makes more sense.

To repeat myself: Intriguing.

 

[Kaede Did Nothing Wrong]

inside job, this was actually a cruise missile.

 

[Exigent Circumcisions]

No one is gonna say how does lighting hit a brick wall? Looks like the rest of the wall is still standing. Very strange and feels extremely statistically unlikely which makes the story all the more fascinating.

I had the same thought. The fact that it didn’t do structural damage to the building is pretty crazy, too. The amount of force it would take to knock all those bricks off the outside should have fucked the second layer of bricks up as well but nope, just the image got smited.

 

[zyclonPD]

 

[Cool Username]

Yes, but I'm pretty sure in this case it's because he's fucking pissed off.

And it was only his face that was destroyed. It's a definate sign that people need to smarten the fuck up, but I highly doubt they'll take the hint.

I really like the irony of this whole situation.

 

[Exceptionally Exceptional]

 

[BOONES]

How Shocking.

 

[Niggernerd]

So that's how static shock came about.
Also >tfw even god doesn't want to deal with you niggas
Lol

 

[Zig-Zag the Grand Vizier]

Isn't the three-pronged crown thing a symbol belonging to street artist Basquiat? Kinda weird to see another black street artist's symbol used on street art of a person I'm supposed to perceive as a martyr imo. Unless I'm just a retard with entry-level art education. This dude used to hang out with Warhol.

 

[kcbbq]

Intriguing.

I didn't think lightning did that much damage, I thought that it passed through inanimate objects into the ground. Maybe lit stuff on fire. I didn't think it made bricks fall apart. I want to assume actually someone destroyed the wall.

I also assume lightning hits the tallest nost conductive thing, so maybe the roof or lamppost but not the wall.

But the witnesses say they saw it, this wasn't an unobserved overnight thing. Also the damage appears to be pretty deep and pretty high. Normal vandals would bring spray paint and a ladder if they lucky, not a pickaxe and a ladder.

But the witnesses could be lying to protect the vandals, it's not like being cowed into silence is unheard of in current year.

But would the kind of community that would defend the vandals and blame God have allowed the mural to go up in the first place? They wouldn't lie like that, lightning makes more sense.

To repeat myself: Intriguing.

Lightning goes where it wants. Sometimes it hits high points or lightning rods, sometimes it ignores them. Lightning rods just let whatever is hit have a discharge path to ground, rather than the objects having to ionize their own once they are charged up, which generates heat and starts fires.

Once an object is hit either the object hit charges up and then discharges or the lightning follows the skin effect and stays on the outer edges of the object, which is what probably happened here. Any water around the object instantly boils and can cause steam explosions, also what probably happened here. There was probably some amount of water between the brick layers, and boom, outer layer blown out.

 

[Tonyskit]

Lightning goes where it wants. Sometimes it hits high points or lightning rods, sometimes it ignores them. Lightning rods just let whatever is hit have a discharge path to ground, rather than the objects having to ionize their own once they are charged up, which generates heat and starts fires.

Once an object is hit either the object hit charges up and then discharges or the lightning follows the skin effect and stays on the outer edges of the object, which is what probably happened here. Any water around the object instantly boils and can cause steam explosions, also what probably happened here. There was probably some amount of water between the brick layers, and boom, outer layer blown out.

Woooosh

 

[WolfeTone]

HALELUJA!