A federal official says a woman who climbed the Statue of Liberty’s base and spurred the statue’s evacuation on July Fourth told police she was protesting the separation of immigrant children from parents who cross the U.S.-Mexico border illegally.
The official identifies the woman as Therese Okoumou. The official wasn’t authorized to discuss it and spoke on the condition of anonymity.
A message left at a possible phone number for the woman hasn’t been returned.
A group that organized a protest at the statue earlier Wednesday says she took part in unfurling a banner at the statue’s pedestal calling for abolishing the federal government’s chief immigration enforcement agency. But the group says no one else was aware she would climb the base.
At least six people were arrested in the banner demonstration.
Okoumou was ultimately escorted down by police after a roughly four-hour standoff.
After two New York Police Department officers went up to the base and reached her, news helicopter video showed her and the officers moving carefully along the edge of the statue’s robes toward a ladder police had set up.
She climbed down about 25 feet (8 meters) to the statue’s observation point, with another officer descending ahead of her.
Just a distraction while the battle rages on
Always interesting to read in english what I heard and vaguely understood on spanish radio and realize what I thought it was about was pretty far off. Oh well as I told my son that lives in Mexico I consider it first and foremost a brain exercise and just like my physical exercise to maintain decent health of running and weightlifting, I never expect to win a race or body building contest!
Glad she’s okay. That sort of thing doesn’t usually end well.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yPTcVlHmgDoAnd, just like Obama’s evil plot to nuke Charleston SC (no, really), I’m sure the fact that it didn’t come true as predicted is simply due to the true patriots exposing the scheme.
In the RWNJ agitprop bubble, it’s like a horrible version of the old joke about the guy who went door-to-door selling elephant repellent. “But there are no elephants anywhere near here!” “See how well it works?”
Or, it was a false rumor planted to distract the Infowars patriots from the real plot.
The real plot probably involves the Dems/libs “opening the border” by flipping a switch or turning a wheel or blowing holes in the wall or using black helicopters to ferry people across or (Alex Jones will be jealous that I came up with this before he did) using dozens of Proof-rock™ machines from The Boring Company to build multilane underground roads and rails from Mexico to locations throughout the US. Also, something something take away our guns.