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MorningLover · ‎10-04-2015

@Snoopp wrote:
@ms traditional wrote:
protest away. we've all gotten out and marched or spoken up for one thing or another.

just don't step on others' rights in the process and put lives at risk.

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Right, don't endanger others. It was quite a process to coax her down.

About 16 officers with the N Y C Police

Department's Emergency Service Unit, a team

trained to perform some of the most dangerous

rescues in the city, took part in the rescue /

apprehension effort.

"At first she was being a little combative and

she threatened to push us off, push the ladder off,

but we stayed with her", one officer said.

The woman is affiliated with Rise and Resist movement.

Hoovermom · ‎03-19-2010

@sidsmom wrote:
I keep looking at her ‘why’...and everything makes sense.

It’s not the first time people have protested at the Statue of Liberty
and it probably won’t be the last.

Endangering the lives of the first responders?
Yes, it was a challenge, but they train for this.
I would hate to think all the people saying to ‘leave her there’
probably have the same mindset when people try to commit suicide
by jumping off bridges/buildings. First responders risk their lives
to save the lives of others every day.

‘..they have better things to do’...maybe trying to save the life
of a dude who had too much to drink & blew his finger off with a
firecracker? Or transporting bodies to the ER when a drunk driver
was going the wrong way on a highway? A first responder will
help someone without judgement...too bad the Public doesn’t
understand that simple thought.

She risked her life for a noble cause.
I have to give her a slow clap.
And for costs? The line forms to the left to help.
Lots of people are lining up to help her & her cause.

LOL

Snoopp · ‎02-02-2015

Charges are disorderly conduct and trespassing.

Hoovermom · ‎03-19-2010

The personal trainer was arrested in August 2017 for trespassing and obstruction of government administration during a demonstration at the New York Department of Labor, reported the New York Daily News. Okoumou was also charged with misdemeanor assault after striking an officer with her foot while flailing on the ground in an attempt to avoid being put into an ambulance.

occasionalrain · ‎03-10-2010

What she did was illegal, she knew it was against the law, but, apparently, laws don't apply to her. They should have just tasered her and dragged her off of there like any other criminal instead of negotiating for three hours while thousands of decent people waited around.

RetRN · ‎10-01-2013

Those lining up to help her are as despicable as she is. Perhaps she should try doing something worthwhile.

Cindy-QVC · ‎06-14-2015

Moved:

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Hoovermom · ‎03-19-2010

Here's more of her worthy cause LOL:

koumou has a long history of pursuing anti-discrimination campaigns.

In 2003, she unsuccessfully filed a wrongful-termination lawsuit, claiming racial discrimination after she was fired from a battered woman's home.

Four years later, she unsuccessfully filed a human rights complaint against a group home in Staten Island for racial discrimination.

And in 2009, she won $1,500 off a towing company, County Recovery, after she accused an employee of calling her a racial name and saying she should be shipped back to Africa,

esmeraldagooch · ‎03-10-2010

@MorningLover wrote:
@Snoopp wrote:
@ms traditional wrote:
protest away. we've all gotten out and marched or spoken up for one thing or another.

just don't step on others' rights in the process and put lives at risk.

.
Right, don't endanger others. It was quite a process to coax her down.

About 16 officers with the N Y C Police
Department's Emergency Service Unit, a team
trained to perform some of the most dangerous
rescues in the city, took part in the rescue /
apprehension effort.

"At first she was being a little combative and
she threatened to push us off, push the ladder off,
but we stayed with her", one officer said.

The woman is affiliated with Rise and Resist movement.

From their website.

Rise and Resist is a direct action group committed to opposing, disrupting, and defeating any government act that threatens democracy, equality, and our civil liberties.