Woman who climbed Statue of Liberty sentenced to probation, community service. Therese Okoumou was convicted in December of trespassing. A Staten Island woman was sentenced Tuesday to five years of probation and 200 hours of community service for climbing the Statue of Liberty on July 4.
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Suffragists protesting during the opening ceremony objected to the use of a female figure to symbolize liberty when American women did not have the right to vote, and African American journalists expressed their ambivalence about the Statue in the wake of Reconstruction, signaling that its interpretation would become a ...
Elhajo Malick DieyeA 30-year-old man who jumped 80 feet to his death at the Statue of Liberty on Saturday evening acted erratically beforehand, a National Parks Service officer said yesterday. Sgt. C. J. Ross said that the man, Elhajo Malick Dieye, 30, was disheveled and became agitated around 5:30 P.M.
On July 4, 2018, Patricia Okoumou shocked the world by climbing the Statue of Liberty to protest the detention of migrant children. She remained on the base for more than three hours, and Liberty Island was evacuated.
The Statue of Liberty was a gift from the French people commemorating the alliance of France and the United States during the American Revolution.
Between 1886 and 1924, almost 14 million immigrants entered the United States through New York. The Statue of Liberty was a reassuring sign that they had arrived in the land of their dreams.
"Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.