Sums up so much "The woman who was arrested on the Fourth of July after she climbed onto the base of the Statue of Liberty to protest the Trump administration’s immigration policies was charged with trespassing and two other misdemeanors and then released Thursday by a magistrate judge.
Therese Patricia Okoumou, 44, of Staten Island, pleaded not guilty to the charges during a brief hearing in federal court in Manhattan. At the end of the proceeding, she raised her right fist, drawing applause from supporters in the courtroom.
Outside the courthouse, Ms. Okoumou cited the words of former first lady Michelle Obama: “‘When they go low, we go high,’ and I went as high as I could,” she told supporters. She called the decision to climb “spur of the moment.” Ms. Okoumou said she emigrated from the Republic of Congo to the United States in 1994, and her lawyer said she is a naturalized citizen." https://mobile.nytimes.com/2018/07/05/nyregion/protester-statue-of-liberty.html
