The vandal who police consider defaced a Brooklyn mural honoring legendary rapper Infamous B.I.G. is captured on new surveillance footage.
The suspect allegedly approached the mural on the nook of St. James Place and Fulton Avenue in Clinton Hill round midnight Aug. 26, splashed black paint on the rapper’s face and scrawled the phrases “East Coast” in purple spray paint, cops mentioned.
The NYPD clip, launched late Wednesday, exhibits the alleged vandal strolling down a residential road, apparently carrying a white bag. Police are nonetheless trying to monitor him down.
The destruction occurred within the space the place the “Hypnotize” artist, whose actual title was Christopher Wallace, grew up.
Artist Vincent Ballentine created the artwork piece in 2019, and it now covers the outside wall of the Magnificence World salon the place Biggie spent a lot of his youth, in response to Complicated.
“Carried out soiled,” Ballentine posted on Instagram, displaying the destruction.
4 days later, Ballentine posted a video of the restored mural, with the caption, “Resurrection of BIG.”
“You gotta attempt more durable child,” he mentioned within the clip. “Come more durable subsequent time, playboy!”
The vandalism drew swift condemnation from Mayor Eric Adams.
“Biggie is a hero to our group, and that’s darn positive not the way you unfold love the Brooklyn approach, as Biggie would say,” Hizzoner advised NY1. “We’re going to look into that and ensure that mural is cleaned up and repaired as a result of this has a spot there and it stays there, and we need to discover the particular person accountable.”
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