Therese Patricia Okoumou, get to know her name and well. Okoumou, 44, was the woman who scaled the Statue of Liberty on the Fourth of July. The Staten Island resident, an immigrant from the Democratic Republic of the Congo stated that she climbed the statue to protest Trump’s “zero tolerance” policy on immigration and the separation of families at the border.
Okoumou had a three hour stand off with the police before she was finally taken into custody Wednesday night. She was held in a federal detention center and her case is currently being handled by Southern District of New York Prosecutors.
After her release,Okoumou spoke out the courthouse, wearing a black shirt with white letters saying “White Supremacy is Terrorism”, and citing a quote that inspired her to climb the Statue of Liberty, by Michelle Obama. “Michelle Obama, our beloved first lady that I care so much about said,’When they go low, we go high.’ I went as high as I could.”
Okoumou was charged with trespassing as well as two other misdemeanors. While in court, she pleaded not guilty during her short hearing in a Staten Island court room before being released by the magistrate judge.Okoumou is being called our modern day SHERO!.
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Therese Patricia Okoumou Takes a Stand!
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Breaking News: Joe Jackson, Patriarch of the Jackson Family has died.
Joe Jackson, the man who launched the career of Jackson family empire, has died in a Las Vegas hospital.It was reported that Jackson was battling stage 4 pancreatic cancer and was in the final stages of it.Joe Jackson was the father, manager, and driving force behind his children Michael, Janet, Jermaine, and the rest of the Jackson children’s career.Jackson was 89 years old.
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Cardi B and Offset Secretly got Married Last September
Its official, Cardi B and Offset are married.In a recent interview with People.com, the Bronx native said, “There are so many moments that I sharewith the world and then there are moments that I want to keep for myself! Getting married was one of those moments! Our relationship was so new breaking up and making up and we had a lot of growing up to do but we was so in love we didn’t want to lose each other, was one morning in September we woke up and decided to get married.”Hence why her album is called Invasion of Privacy. Cardi took to twitter to make a statement after TMZ leaked the news. “This why I name my album Invasion of Privacy cause people will do the most to be [nosy] about your life. Well f— it.”Congratulations to Offset and Cardi B on their marriage. The couple are also expecting their first child together.
