{"id":80355,"date":"2018-07-05T09:28:43","date_gmt":"2018-07-05T13:28:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=80355"},"modified":"2018-07-05T09:28:43","modified_gmt":"2018-07-05T13:28:43","slug":"therese-okoumou-abolish-ice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=80355","title":{"rendered":"Therese Okoumou; Abolish ICE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=80356\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-80356\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/patricia-okoumou.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"218\" height=\"175\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-80356\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Therese Okoumou climbed the feet of the Statue of Liberty yesterday to protest the Trump immigration policy that has been in effect through the last three presidential administrations. Her stunt resulted in an end to planned July 4th festivities on Liberty Island according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2018\/07\/04\/statue-of-liberty-climber-identified-as-immigrant-activist\/\">New York Post<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Cops say Therese Patricia Okoumou \u2014 a 44-year-old immigrant from the Democratic Republic of the Congo \u2014 was the person responsible for the Fourth of July protest.<\/p>\n<p>She lives in the St. George neighborhood of Staten Island and is currently in federal custody, according to police sources.<\/p>\n<p>Officers from the NYPD\u2019s Emergency Service Unit transported her to a federal detention center Wednesday night following her three-hour standoff with authorities. Her case is being handled by prosecutors in the Southern District of New York.<\/p>\n<p>Sources said Okoumou told investigators she climbed up to the feet of Lady Liberty to protest President Trump\u2019s \u201czero tolerance\u201d policy on immigration and the separation of families at the border.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2018\/jul\/4\/therese-okoumou-identified-statue-liberty-climber\/?utm_campaign=shareaholic&#038;utm_medium=facebook&#038;utm_source=socialnetwork\">The Washington Times<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Regardless of her status, she and a group of self-styled \u201cresistance\u201d members ruined Independence Day celebrations for numerous New Yorkers and tourists. After about six were arrested for unfurling a banner calling for the immigration-enforcement agency to be abolished, her bid to scale the statue and refusal to come down prompted the National Park Service to shut the park down for the rest of the afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>Despite pleas that she come down from the side of the statue, according to NBC News, Ms. Okoumou said she wouldn\u2019t until all the immigrant children detained by ICE have been released.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>She&#8217;ll face numerous misdemeanor charges in Federal court today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Therese Okoumou climbed the feet of the Statue of Liberty yesterday to protest the Trump immigration &hellip; <a title=\"Therese Okoumou; Abolish ICE\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=80355\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Therese Okoumou; Abolish ICE<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":80356,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dumbass-bullshit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=80355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80355\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/80356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=80355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=80355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=80355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}