Now We Know What Really Happened To The George Floyd Memorial That Was Reduced To Rubble

On Tuesday, a beautiful mural painted in honor of George Floyd came crashing down in Toledo, Ohio. While some people feared that a group of white supremacists was responsible for the destruction, it was actually Mother Nature that tore down the memorial. During a storm that passed through Ohio, causing destruction through its path, a bolt of lightning struck the George Floyd mural and forced it to come crashing down into a pile of rubble.

The Floyd mural had been painted on the side of a building that once housed the Mugshots bar. The mural was painted with bright colors surrounding the portrait of the man murdered by a former Minneapolis police officer. The Floyd image was also adorned with a crown on the top of his head.

However, the Floyd mural met an untimely end around 4:30 pm on Tuesday, July 13, 2021, according to a witness who happened to see it happen. The witness reported that the lightning strike came down on the building and forced the brick wall to crumble. Now the George Floyd mural is a pile of rubble thanks to the powerful lightning strike.

Some people feared that someone had purposely destroyed the Floyd mural as part of a White Lives Matter response to the Black Lives Matter movement. However, Doppler Radar was able to successfully confirm that a lightning strike attacked the neighborhood on Tuesday around the time the mural came crashing down.

Artist David Ross was selected to paint the George Floyd mural at the Toledo location. Unfortunately, the mural was painted on the side of an old building that had bricks that were not entirely stable. Apparently, the lightning strike was too powerful that it simply made the building collapse. According to a Toledo Building inspector, the building was structurally sound, but the wall that fell was not.

Ross’s mural was entitled “Take a Breath,” which was installed on the wall in July 2020. Unfortunately, the mural barely survived in Toledo for a year before the freak lightning strike came down on the building with the wall.

Now, Toledo promises to create a new George Floyd mural since this one got destroyed by Mother Nature. Because this recently happened, the city has yet to settle on plans for the new mural, but a spokesperson confirmed that the city is committed to creating a new mural in honor of the Black Lives Matter movement. Right now, the City of Toledo has to figure out where they will put the new mural.

After the destruction of the George Floyd mural, the police arrived at the scene to put up caution tape to help keep people safe from the rubble. The building owner was also on scene cleaning up the fallen bricks and pulling down the remainder of the bricks that were still standing following the lightning strike. The area is being cleaned up so they can make the area safer for people traveling around the Ohio city.

What do you think about the fallen George Floyd mural in Toledo, Ohio?