{"id":426881,"date":"2026-01-24T10:56:19","date_gmt":"2026-01-24T10:56:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/426881\/"},"modified":"2026-01-24T10:56:19","modified_gmt":"2026-01-24T10:56:19","slug":"a-charlie-kirk-inspired-jersey-city-mural-sets-off-an-online-firestorm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/426881\/","title":{"rendered":"A Charlie Kirk-Inspired Jersey City Mural Sets Off an Online Firestorm"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n

Greg Edgell hoped a mural he commissioned on the backside of a liquor store would walk a wide berth around the culture war. Instead, he stepped right in the middle of it.<\/p>\n

Intended as a celebration of life, the mural has been mired in months of discussion about everything from reproductive rights to the \u201cgreat replacement theory.\u201d It did not help matters that the impetus for the mural, as he detailed in an op-ed<\/a> in the Jersey City Times, was the assassination of Charlie Kirk, whom many on the left consider a toxic political figure. Nor did it help that he displaced a much-loved piece of Jersey City history to do it. Such was the passion unleashed by Edgell\u2019s mural that a well-known local graffiti artist decided to modify Edgell\u2019s work as a metaphorical shot across the bow.<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tE. Assata Wright is a staff writer who covers zoning, development, infrastructure, and transit. For six years she covered Hudson County politics and municipal issues as a staff writer for the Hudson Reporter,…\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t
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