Extinction Rebellion Vandalizes Wall Street Bull on Earth Day
The climate vandals also spray painted an NYC Tesla dealership, resulting in 2 arrests.
The eco-nut-jobs from Extinction Rebellion decided to mark Earth Day by painting the famous Charging Bull statue in Manhattan’s Financial District with vivid green paint.
These inane anti-capitalist cultist activists painted the phrase “Greed = Death” and their group’s emblem on the bronze sculpture, which is a well-known symbol of Wall Street and the surging stock market.
“Good morning from the resistance. We came to Wall Street to call out the bulls—,” the activist group said on social media site X. “Bulls— told by the 1% who gamble with our futures. Bulls– to bailouts for those who wrecked our economy.”
One protester, who climbed up and sat on the neck of the bull, was told to dismount by a New York City police officer.
Later Tuesday, the group of activists cleaned the green paint off the bull after their demonstration.
Another meaningless virtue-signaling display🤡
Environmental activists spray-painted the Wall Street Bull with the message “Greed = Death” to protest the NYSE on National Earth Day.#EarthDay #EarthDay2025 pic.twitter.com/g4uWnGjTPl
— Steve Gruber (@stevegrubershow) April 22, 2025
It seems these protesters take American cops more seriously than they do with the police in other countries. They swiftly wiped it all off when they spotted cops nearby.
But as a handful of cops casually stood by, the easily-spooked vandals scrubbed down the front and sides of the bull, attempting to erase any evidence of the graffiti, video shows.
The group said in a press release that the brazen vandalism was part of their attempt to “call out Wall Street’s bulls–t.”
No one was arrested, police said.
You can tell these environmental activists are super committed to their cause after they started frantically removing their graffiti from the Wall Street Bull as soon as NYPD arrived. pic.twitter.com/qLkx3MO25a
— Kevin Dalton (@TheKevinDalton) April 22, 2025
Italian-American sculptor Arturo Di Modica created the bull. Modica intended the sculpture to symbolize the resilience, strength, and optimism of Americans and the financial markets after the 1987 crash.
Di Modica paid $360,000 of his own money in order to build Charging Bull. His goal was to inspire people to carry on through hard times and celebrate the perseverance of the American business professional. The bull was chosen to represent the “bull” (or rising) market and thriving economy — something everybody was fighting for after the crash.
…The hefty sculpture weighs over 7,000 pounds and stands 11 feet tall. When the time came to display his grand artwork, Di Modica drove the bull into Manhattan on the back of a flatbed truck and illegally (guerilla-art style) placed the sculpture outside the New York Stock Exchange.
The date was Dec. 15, 1989, right in the middle of the holiday season. Di Modica thought the bull would fit perfectly under the giant Christmas Tree on Broad Street as a kind of gift to New Yorkers.
The police quickly removed the bull due to the lack of permits. Still, after significant public support, the New York City Parks Department reinstalled it at its current location near Bowling Green a week later, where it remains today.
Legal Insurrection readers may recall the 2017 drama of Fearless Girl, sculpted by Kristen Visbal and installed just before International Women’s Day. The statue depicts a young girl standing defiantly with her hands on her hips, facing the bull. Supposedly, it was meant to promote gender diversity in corporate leadership and referenced SSGA’s “SHE” index fund.
The kind of statue I’d turn up to stand guard at.
She’s called The Fearless Girl and she stared down Wall Street’s famous charging bull #statues pic.twitter.com/hIabeDyJ98
— Gary Nunn 🏳️🌈🚴🏼🇬🇧🇦🇺 (@GaryNunn1) June 13, 2020
Extinction Rebellion also targeted Tesla’s showroom in Manhattan’s Meatpacking District, spray-painting graffiti on its windows as a protest against CEO Elon Musk’s involvement with the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). The activists used bright red and green paint to write slogans such as “F— DOGE” and “do not consent,” and drew red lines through DOGE symbols.
Two of these loons were arrested.
Several DOGE signs were also coated onto several windows with red lines crossing through each of them – similar to a “no” or “prohibited” symbol. The showroom is located in Manhattan’s Meat Packing District, between Washington Street and W 13th Street, and people could be seen inside at the time.
The group appeared to belong to the climate activist group Extinction Rebellion, which has been known to overtake public spaces, cause disruptions and deface public buildings. The group claims to use non-violent civil disobedience to protest against political inaction over what they believe is man-made climate change.
The two climate vandals were arrested when police arrived on the scene. The younger man was wearing a pink t-shirt with the words “Climate Change = Mass Murder” inscribed on the back of his top.
🚨 BREAKING — Chaos at the Tesla dealership in Manhattan: Democrats reportedly took over the building, spray-painted the windows, and vandalized the property. No arrests made at this point. Are you proud of this Democrats? pic.twitter.com/7ymkrnwlnx
— Stephen Gardner (@StephenGardnerX) April 22, 2025
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Comments
Maybe RFK Jr. should ban all shades of green paint and dye. Everyone knows that it is highly correlated with ignorance, waste, fraud and crime.
It sounds like arrests of Tesla terrorists and potential 20 year jail sentences is tempering these clowns actions.
Can someone explain the ecological virtues of a can of spray paint for me?
Or, for that matter the solvent they used to remove it.
Well, they don’t use HFCs to propel the paint anymore, so the ozone layer is safe. Right?
Until we find out in a couple of decades so whatever propellant they’re using now is just as bad as CFCs
Whatever. Nothing to see here, folks. This is just getting old and not very newsworthy. Just clean the thing off with the environmentally unsafe solvents and be done with it.
I have some environmentally safe solvents we can use on the perpetrators. Wouldn’t that be a better choice?
Well good
At some point, these criminals should be dealt with by a mob of citizens. When these idiots receive a good thrashing perhaps they will reconsider their destructive actions.
Because nothing changes hearts and minds, or strikes more terror into oligarchs than spray painting the international symbol for “I am an idiot’ on other peoples’ property.
with cnbc and so many other financial companies doing the bidding of the leftists………
more eco terrorists posing as concerned caring lovers
destroycommunism asap
too bad that statue couldnt come to life for a minute or 2 while those pos were vandalizing
So, expressing their infantile rage by make other people’s property look ugly briefly. Childish antics that should be punished with very adult-level sanctions.
Just the taser the bastards already.
Had the graffiti been left on the bull, the efficient way out would have been just to scrub off the D and replace it with a N.
I think they ought to take these Extinction Rebellion people and remove from them every Vestige of Modern Life short of the clothes on their backs and then drop them into the Amazon rainforest so they can fend for themselves in a very natural environment.
They need to have the “Fearless Girl” stare down transgender men who are taking over women’s sports.
What some may not know is that they took the “Fearless Girl” to the white house to stare down Biden, but it didn’t work. He has a vacant stare and all he wanted to do was get behind her and sniff her hair.
The entire eco movement is just a giant watermelon; Green on the outside, Red on the inside.
I have to admit to being confused about “greed.” I EARN money and I’m “greedy” if I want to keep it to spend to make myself and my loved ones happy. But scoundrels, wastrels, and layabouts who want to STEAL my money to make themselves and their loved ones happy are selfless exemplars of humanity. We’ve taken a serious wrong turn somewhere. Let’s dial the government’s share of the economy back to where it was in 2000 and sit back and watch economic growth magically appear.