Sick vandals are being hunted in New York after they wrote a disgusting insult about the Queen on a popular statue. The NYPD are searching for four suspects who defaced Wall Street's Charging Bull sculpture with the disgusting words "f*** the Queen'.
Surveliinace camera footage captured two men and two women walking through Manhattan at 2:30am on September 9 - the day after her tragic death rocked the world. Her Majesty died at her Scottish home in Balamoral and tributes flooded in from all over the world, including from US President Joe Biden.
The twisted vandals used a 'paint marker type instrument' to scribble their cruel message on the bull's forehead.
Two of the hooligans held hands as the entourage strolled down the street.
The NYPD confirmed it has since been removed but the suspects have not been found - and they could face up to a year in jail.
Graffiti is considered a Class A misdemeanor in New York so they could get a prison sentence as well as being ordered to pay fines and removal costs.
It's not the first time that the Charging Bull, a 7,100-pound bronze sculpure in Manhattan's Financial District that attracts thousands of tourists a day, has been vandalised.
The 3.4m tall bull was created by Italian artist Arturo Di Modica in 1989 as a symbol of aggressive financial optimism and prosperity after the 1987 Black Monday stock market crash.
As a prominent symbol of Wall Street and capitalism, the Charging Bull has been the frequent target of vandalism, particularly as an act of civil disobedience.
After the collapse of Lehman Brothers in 2008, the bull's scrotum was paited blue.
It's head was also doused in blue pigment three months after Donald Trump announced the US's withdrawl from the Paris Agreement on climate change.
In September 2019, a Texas truck driver attacked the sculpture with a banjo and damaged the right horn, while the following month an Extinction Rebellion climate acitivist covered it in fake blood and staged a die-in by its hooves.
President Biden and the First lady, Jill, visited the Queen's coffin in Westminster Hall to pay their respects before the funeral at Westminster Abbey on Mondau.
He said: "Just because of the way she touched when she leaned over. The way she had that look, like, 'are you okay? Anything I can do for you? What do you need?' and then also 'make sure you do what you are supposed to do'."
To all the people of England, all the people of the United Kingdom, our hearts go out to you and you were fortunate to have had her for 70 years. We all were. The world is better for her."
President Biden said it was an honour to meet Her Majesty and admitted she reminded him of his own mother.
Discussing the Queen's impact on the wider world, he continued: "The American press has heard me say for a long time that I think the thing that is - maybe it's too much if you excuse the expression, the Irish of it - it is about treating people with dignity.
"I talk about how my mother and father thought that everyone, no matter who they were, no matter what their station, no matter where they were from, deserved to be treated with dignity. And that's exactly what she (the Queen) communicated, just the way she walked by, the way she acted.
"I think what she gave is a sense of maybe above all the notion of service. We all owe something. There's something within our capacity to do that can make things, not just the world better, but your neighbourhood better, your household better, your workplace better. That's what she communicated to me anyway and it was an honour to meet her."
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