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A renegade sculptor has mounted a bust of Edward Snowden in a Brooklyn park

• theverge.com

The bust was placed before dawn this morning near the Prison Ship Martyrs' Monument in Fort Greene Park, atop a preexisting plinth at the southeast corner. Parks Department officials were unable to remove the bust inidially, but arrived at noon to cover it with a tarpaulin. A little over an hour later, the bust was fully removed.

According to the artist, the sculpture was meant to honor Snowden as a modern-day martyr akin to those honored by the monument. The sculpture was cast from a bronzelike substance, meant to mimic the style and feel of the bronze sculptures already in the park. The bust was also sized to fit perfectly on the plinths already in place at the park. "We look at this as a gift to the city," the anonymous sculptor told Animal New York, "but gifts are sometimes not accepted."

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Comment by Powell Gammill
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You have to love an jackboot of the state stepping on the face of an eagle so they can place a cover over Snowden's visage while a ladder rests unused against the statue on the other side of the pillar. Great activism indeed.



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