Anti-drone NYC street artist arrested

Essam Attia is NYC street artist who posted fake NYPD posters “reassuring” people about the ubiquitous surveillance of the department, especially via drones. The NYPD surveilled him, tr…

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Essam Attia is charged with “56 counts of criminal possession of a forged instrument, grand larceny possession of stolen property and weapons possession,” the last (and possibly worst) charge coming because cops found an unloaded .22 pistol under his bed when they arrested him