Woman who climbed Statue of Liberty in anti-Trump protest says Michelle Obama inspired her
Source: New York Daily News
When they went low, she went high.
An unrepentant activist who scaled the Statue of Liberty's pedestal to protest President Trump's immigration policies said after her arraignment Thursday that she was inspired by Michelle Obama's famous quote.
With the words of the former First Lady ringing in her ears, Therese Patricia Okoumou, 44, a Staten Island personal trainer, said she decided to take a Fourth of July immigration protest to the next level by clambering up Lady Liberty's copper base and refusing to come down. Her one-woman movement caused the temporary shutdown of the statue and Liberty Island.
"Michelle Obama — our beloved First Lady that I care so much about — said, 'When they go low, we go high,' and I went as high as I could," Okoumou, a Congolese immigrant said Thursday outside the Manhattan federal courthouse.
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Good for her...
Loved this part:
The U.S. Parks Police detained seven people for the banner protest, and they evacuated 4,000 visitors from the island "out of an abundance of caution," spokesman Jerry Willis said. The National Parks Service is reviewing video to figure out how Okoumou got up there, he said. They will also check to see if the statue is damaged.
Statue historian and fourth-generation tinsmith Dennis Heaphy, who has performed extensive repairs on Lady Liberty said it's unlikely Okoumou hurt the beacon's copper skin.
I would think so!
Where do they get these snowflake ideas?
Horay for Therese Patricia Okoumou.
