NEW YORK — Suddenly, in the middle of the New York night, Edward Snowden’s face appeared – deep in a public park.
A 4-foot-high, 100-pound sculpted bust of the whistleblower now exiled in Russia was sneaked into Brooklyn’s Fort Greene Park on Monday before dawn.
Animal New York, a city news website that first reported the incident, said the mysterious perpetrators were a small group of artists – admirers of the former contractor who had leaked classified information from the National Security Agency to the media.
The activists hoisted the bust to the top of a Revolutionary War memorial, adding his name to a column, according to Animal New York. The website says the group allowed it to document installation of the statue on the condition that it not reveal the identities of the artists.
Snowden’s artistic appearance was short-lived.
At daybreak, police said city parks officials ordered the sculpted Snowden removed. And by evening, his bust was being held at Brooklyn’s 88th Precinct pending an investigation.
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