Clinton supporter smashes up bizarre ‘NAKED’ caricature statue of Hillary with hooves in Manhattan after finding it ‘offensive’
The woman caused a fracas in the rush hour in New York with commuters stopping to stare at the scene
A NAKED caricature statue of Hillary Clinton caused consternation for one of her supporters when it appeared in Manhattan.
It appeared near a subway station in New York on Tuesday morning and depicted the Democrat presidential nominee nearly nude with hooves.
However one of her supporters wasn't best pleased to see the statue and caused a rush hour commotion.
She knocked it down, and broke parts off as another man, who claimed to be the artist, tried to save it.
The woman then called police and asked them to remove the statue and it was taken by 7.30am.
“Yeah I hope they put you in cuffs,” the male artist said during the ruckus. “I’m just trying to preserve my art here.”
“This is my workplace, I have to look at this?” the upset woman said.
As the woman sat on the statue, another man shouted out: “Does anyone have a forklift?”
The artist identified himself as Anthony Scioli.
The spoke to people at the scene who had opposing views of the statue.
Demetrius Aspinall, 22, who works at a nearby farmers’ market said: “When the lady started kicking it, then it got serious. Just because you don’t like it, you shouldn’t be taking it upon yourself to destroy it.”
But Mirian Hernandez, a 62-year-old interpreter, said she understood the woman’s angry reaction: “Oh my God that is disgusting. As a woman I’m doubly offended … I guess that woman got offended. I would have just ignored it but sometimes you can’t ignore something.”
The paper reported a number of reporters turned up at Scioli's address, and a man, who looked nothing like the artist at the scene, said he didn't know anything about it.
The man's mother shouted however: “It was Danny! It was Danny, his childhood friend who never grew up!”
Scioli defended the stunt saying: “That’s the nature of the work. It wasn’t built to last. I think it’s unfortunate.
“I do believe satire gets to the truth of matters. It was lighthearted. The way it escalated is unfortunate.“
He then went on to claim he didn't know who Donald Trump and Clinton were: “I completely had nothing to do with it. Someone gave my name,” he said. “I had nothing to do with it. I had nothing to do with the Hillary Clinton or the Trump statue, I never heard of these people.”
Both Scioli and his mom declined to name “Danny.”
It's not the first time an offensive statue has appeared of a presidential nominee - anarchist collective INDECLINE erected a caricature of Donald Trump near Union Square in August which was up all day until it was removed.
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