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You're wrong. This wasn't a bunch of kids messing around. The damage was done by a solitary individual. The perpetrator arrived on the scene carrying a tin of paint at approximately 4:00am in the morning. He or she has been caught on camera. Whether or not the CCTV images that were captured are good enough to trace the individual concerned is doubtful, but what is absolutely certain is that this was a pre-planned attack on the mural and not a random act of vandalism.
4am attack, white paint on a large mural of a black woman. Two summers of debate and action over murals depicting figures perceived as racist, intolerant....... Must've been kids with a pot of paint, who were up early for school and had no idea how throwing white paint over the face of a black women, would look. why not a bus stop window?
Probably best to let the police do their job.
Personally, I can imagine that racial intent may have been likely here - it's very common for graffiti art to be defaced, but not usually with white paint thrown over it -it's normally tagging.
So yeah, some kind of racist attack - quite probably. But it could easily be an attack because it's someone wearing a City shirt (the paint was white, it's the south wales derby coming up..) or someone with an issue with the artist etc, or wanton vandalism, although that seems unlikely as who has paint at 4am?
I hope they catch them and charge them with vandalism and also something to recognise the racist element, if that's a part of it. I also hope they have to help the artist touch it up.
Either way, with any unsolved crime, is speculation really all that helpful? You can call crimestoppers on 0800 555 111 if anyone has any information.
If it was on camera and at that time I stand corrected as it does sound like a racist incident , lets hope they get a good prosecution and make an example of the individual /s as its a lovely unique mural .
I've got to admit, may be me being naïve, but when I first heard it I did wonder whether it was racially motivated, or a Swansea fan defacing the city shirt, or just a pissed up gang of kids who stumbled across a tin of paint.
on hearing it was a lone individual at 4 am I would certainly be veering towards it being racially/culturally motivated.
Can someone post a link to how we can contribute to its repair, or could someone post it as new post so it stands out, it will be strong message
[QUOTE=The Bloop;5231808]TOBW has posted a link above.
£1500 has already been donated against a target of £750[/QUOTE
Cheers
I was going by passed experience regarding kids finding paint and throwing it over buildings and pavements.
In this case i believe i was wrong and hope the bastard who did it is caught and punished.
I was in Butetown week before last visiting some friends and i mentioned the mural and how good i thought it was and they seemed very happy if not proud of it.
Just saw this one too https://www.newsweek.com/video-shows...-paint-1635373