A naked statue of Hillary Clinton outraged passersby at Bowling Green, Manhattan, on October 18. According to a New York Daily News report, the statue was erected by an artist during rush hour, but was toppled by a woman who yelled at the statue's creator, telling him it was "obscene." The video here shows the artist and the woman grappling over the artwork, showing her dragging it along the ground before she sits on it. Credit: Instagram/Michael OâBrien

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THERE was madness in lower Manhattan during rush hour on Tuesday morning after an artist erected a nude statue of Hillary Clinton for all to see.

The revealing statue shows the Democratic presidential candidate with an open shirt, hoofs for feet and a Wall Street banker resting his head on her breast. She’s also depicted stomping on what appears to be her deleted emails, as well as Benghazi.

The statue was up for around three hours, before an angry woman knocked it over and sat on it, calling the piece of protest art “obscene”.

“To put something up like this in front of my workplace ... I shouldn’t have to see this,” she told the New York Daily News.

But while some were offended by the statue, others on the scene defended the artist’s freedom of expression. Before long, a disagreement broke out between onlookers.

Several passers-by tweeted pictures of the woman tearing the statue down while its creator, identified as 27-year-old Anthony Scioli, tried to save it.

The figure was eventually removed by counter-terrorism officers as the artist didn’t have a permit for the demonstration.

Back in August, a number of life-size statues of Donald Trump, in all his naked glory, began popping up in public spaces around the country.

One of the nude effigies was spotted in Union Square in New York City, sparking a selfie frenzy and a slew of tweets poking fun at the representation of the Republican presidential candidate’s manhood and physique.

But New York officials weren’t laughing, sending a pair of workers from the Parks Department to remove the statue after a few hours as onlookers booed and cursed.

“NYC Parks stands firmly against any unpermitted erection in city parks, no matter how small,” the department said in a statement after removing the work.

Only in #NYC - naked Donald Trump drawing yuuuge crowds in Union Square - unclear who placed statue there #nbc4ny pic.twitter.com/LgmNPkSksV — Steven Bognar (@Bogs4NY) August 18, 2016

The sculpture in Manhattan’s Union Square was one of at least five to pop up in the US that month, with identical versions appearing in Los Angeles, Cleveland, Seattle and San Francisco. The statues were the work of a political group called Indecline, who called the project “The Emperor Has No Balls”.