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Black trans lives matter protesters and cops came to blows Thursday night after the protesters apparently sprayed a statue near Central Park with anti-cop graffiti and red paint resembling blood. A group of hundreds of protesters were seen marching through Manhattan on Thursday before vandalizing a statue in Columbus Circle and clashing with police during a chaotic melee. Several protesters were seen brawling with NYPD officers while others threw an unidentified liquid at them, video shows. One protester was seemingly heard on video attempting to spit on cops.

GOP mayoral candidate Nicole Malliotakis mocked Mayor Bill de Blasio on Thursday, saying he should go back to using his given German name after his refusal to defend statues of Italian explorer Christopher Columbus. She made her point while standing under the explorer’s statue in Columbus Circle, which has become the focal point of a cultural battle after Hizzoner said he’d appoint a commission to recommend hateful city monuments for removal. “I really think Bill de Blasio should go back to using his birth name of Warren Wilhelm, because he obviously doesn’t have the heart and soul of an Italian,’’...

NEW YORK CITY — Controversial Democratic Mayor Bill de Blasio appears to be backing down from his crusade against “symbols of hate” in the Big Apple amid significant political pressure. In the wake of the clashes between right and left-wing protesters in Charlottesville, Virginia, which led to a surge in calls from the left for the removal of Confederate statues and monuments across the country, de Blasio got on board with the trend and said he would conduct a 90-day review of all “symbols of hate” on city property. He later refused to say that Christopher Columbus’ statue in the...

Doctor Raoul dressed as Saddam, firebrand as Hillary, Tabi Katz as Laura, and cyborg as W, with HateBill and photographer NYC GOP Chick, stormed Columbus Circle for a Hillary paperback-signing event yesterday.We met at the benches outside the Trump Hotel, with Jean Georges lunch preparations wafting past us, and then circled around to the front of the hottest piece of real estate in New York, the new Time Warner building. Upstairs on the second floor, at Borders, Hillary was signing her book, now only $15 with four more chapter of lies.We got a lot of attention from the West Side...