The organizer of the out-of-control raves which have plagued New York’s Washington Square Park has insisted that the parties will continue every night through the summer, and says that it is his constitutional right to be there despite violent crime that has turned park into a no-go zone for locals.

Hundreds of people returned to the park again on Saturday night for another rave, just 24 hours after a woman was trampled by terrified crowds trying to flee a man armed with a large knife and a taser.

It is the latest in a series of nightly parties thrown in the iconic park, which have left local residents fuming at the noise with NYPD cops failing to enforce a midnight curfew.

Speaking to DailyMail.com, party promoter David Ortiz, who calls himself ‘the Shaman’, said: ‘We’re going to be here every single day. Just like the police are, we are too. Because this is as much our home as to the other residents that actually live here.’

He added: ‘If you can’t accept the fact that I’m living within my First Amendment constitutional rights, which is the right to freedom of speech and to rally in a public place, then my friend you are living in the wrong country and democracy is not for you’.

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