The Assassination of Barack Obama

A controversial art exhibit was raided and shut down before it could beviewed in NYC yesterday.

According to the NY Times blog: Cityroom,Boston-born performance artist, Yazmany Arboleda, tried to set up a provocativeart exhibition in a vacant storefront on West 40th Street in Midtown Manhattan with the title, “The Assassination of Hillary Clinton/The Assassinationof Barack Obama”.
The artist thought his racist views were protected under the Constitutionbecause he was expressing himself through his art. Wrong.
Not 30 minutes after Arboleda set up the gallery across the street fromthe New York Times building, police, feds and secret service swoopedin to shut the art exhibit down. While police covered the offensive storefrontwindow with brown paper, Arboleda was led away in handcuffs to be “interrogated”.
Arboleda, 27, learned the hard way that freedom has its limits. Later,in an interview, he said: “It’s art. It’s not supposed to be harmful.It’s about character assassination — about how Obama and Hillary havebeen portrayed by the media.” He added, “It’s about the media.”
View the offensive artwork after the break…

See some pics below.  If you want to see the rest of the pics, you can go to the following website:

http://www.theassassinationofbarackobama.com/