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Naked statue of Hillary Clinton causes early morning fight among Americans in New York (video & photos)
A naked statue of Hillary Clinton erected by an artist and placed in downtown Manhattan, New York caused a heated fight between defenders of the statue and some women trying to tear it down Tuesday morning.
According to Nydailynews.com, the naked statue of the Democratic candidate appeared outside the Bowling Green station during morning rush hour on Tuesday and shows Clinton with hoofed feet and a Wall Street banker resting his head on her bare breasts.
It was gathered from witnesses that the statue was up for less than three hours before an enraged woman toppled it over and started yelling at the statue’s creator.
“This is obscene!” shouted the woman, an employee at the nearby National Museum of the American Indian who would only identify herself as Nancy.
“To put something up like this in front of my work place…I shouldn’t have to see this,” she later told the Daily News, fighting back tears as she gestured toward the crude figure.
Video of the dispute shows the museum worker struggling with the artist who erected the statue, who identified himself as 27-year-old Anthony Scioli, as he tried to prop the structure back up.
At one point during the tussle, the woman sits down on the statue to prevent Scioli from picking it back up.
A woman in a hijab steps in to help Nancy and stomps her foot on the statue’s face, yelling at Scioli: “Don’t! Leave it alone!”
A small crowd of morning commuters hovered around the scene with their phones out, some of whom started hurling insults and picking sides in the debate over the statue.
After a while, officers with the counter-terrorism unit arrived the scene and ordered Scioli to dismantle and remove the statue because he failed to get a permit for the demonstration.
According to police, the statue was taken away in a van moments later and no one was arrested and no one received a summons.
Below is the video of the argument that ensued over the naked statue:
In August, an unrelated anarchist collective called INDECLINE, put up a naked statue of Donald Trump in Union Square. The political group also erected statues of the GOP nominee in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Cleveland and Seattle.
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