LIBERTY by Therese Patricia Okoumou
Therese protested migrant family separations by sitting at the foot of the Statue of Liberty. She said she would not come down until “all the children are released”. She has been arrested.
The woman who climbed the base of the Statue of Liberty in New York on Independence Day last year to protest against the separation of migrant families at the US-Mexico border has been sentenced to five years’ probation and 200 hours of community service.Therese Patricia Okoumou, who is known as Patricia, was sentenced in a New York
court on Tuesday after being convicted last December of trespass for
attempting to climb the outside of the Statue of Liberty last 4 July,
then refusing to come down, as police helicopters circled and the
monument was evacuated.Okoumou arrived at court with clear tape across her mouth, to protest
against what she said are restrictions to her freedom of expression in
relation to her determination to carry out direct action-style protest
over immigration rights.
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