Illicit Snowden statue put New York City officials in ironic dilemma

Nidal CC BY 6/04/2015

Artists secretly install 100-pound Edward Snowden statue in Brooklyn park
▻http://mashable.com/2015/04/06/snowden-sculpture-fort-greene-brooklyn

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Dressed in reflective yellow construction gear while working under the cover of darkness early Monday, a small group of artists installed a tribute to NSA-leaker Edward Snowden in a Brooklyn park.
The Snowden bust stands atop a column at the Prison Ship Martyrs Monument in Fort Greene Park, a site built to honor more than 11,000 American prisoners of war who died aboard British ships during the American Revolutionary War.

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Loutre @loutre 6/04/2015

▻http://rt.com/usa/247213-brooklyn-snowden-statue-installed-covered

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Kassem @kassem CC BY-NC-SA 6/04/2015

Un buste de Snowden retiré d’un parc de Brooklyn
▻http://www.lapresse.ca/international/etats-unis/201504/06/01-4858611-un-buste-de-snowden-retire-dun-parc-de-brooklyn.php
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#lol

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Loutre @loutre 6/04/2015

▻http://www.tdg.ch/monde/Un-buste-de-Snowden-retire-d-un-parc-par-les-autorites/story/26466652
Le buste a d’abord été recouvert de plastique bleu, pour le cacher au public. L’inscription « Snowden » qui figurait au pied de la colonne où il avait été installé, dans le parc de Fort Greene, a également été recouverte.
Certains touristes et New-Yorkais se photographiaient néanmoins devant, jusqu’à ce que des employés du parc emportent le buste en plâtre, d’environ 40 kilos.
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Fil @fil 8/04/2015

Hours after police removed an illicit bust of Edward Snowden from its perch in a Brooklyn park on Monday, artists replaced it with a hologram.
▻http://mashable.com/2015/04/07/edward-snowden-hologram-statue-brooklyn
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Loutre @loutre 8/04/2015

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Kassem @kassem CC BY-NC-SA 10/04/2015

Illicit Snowden statue put New York City officials in ironic dilemma
▻http://wagingnonviolence.org/2015/04/illicit-snowden-statue-put-new-york-city-officials-ironic-dilemma
The bust put unwitting New York parks officials (and, more so, their bosses) in an interesting dilemma: either allow an illegal installment, or look heavy-handed by covering up and tearing down a visage of the man who revealed damning secrets the government would much rather have kept under wraps. They chose the latter, making an ironic fate for a statue of someone living in political exile.
Even more ironic, and a good deal more troubling, will be if city officials track down and bring charges against the artists. A New York Police Department spokesperson told a local NBC affiliate that the department “will be looking for DNA and other clues that may lead to a suspect.”

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Kassem @kassem CC BY-NC-SA 13/04/2015

▻http://www.arretsurimages.net/breves/2015-04-08/Snowden-le-buste-et-l-hologramme-id18797
« Nous avons été étonnés, ont déclaré les sculpteurs anonymes au site Mashable, de voir que la statue a été recouverte avant d’être déplacée, comme s’il s’agissait d’une #profanation.

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