Witnesses and a local fire department spokesperson said a George Floyd mural in Toledo, Ohio, was destroyed Tuesday after it was struck by lightning, although some local officials disputed their assertion and said it crumbled due to disrepair. Sterling Rahe, a spokesman for the city’s Fire and Rescue Department, told the Toledo Blade that the department agreed with witnesses’ claims that the mural collapsed due to a lightning strike. That assertion, according to Rahe, was also based on an inspection of the scene. Heavy thunderstorms replete with lightning rolled across the Midwest and the northeastern United States this week. Weather forecasters with WTVG-TV reported there was a lightning strike in the area of the mural at Summit and Lagrange streets in Toledo. A city building inspector, Hugh Koogan, disputed the claim that a lightning strike destroyed the mural, which was created amid protests, riots, and violence after Floyd’s officer-involved death in …