Liberty Island’s visitors evacuated after anti-government rioters run amok, scale Statue of Liberty

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Visitors had to be evacuated from the Statue of Liberty on Independence Day after a group of anti-government activists caused a disruption.

Visitors had to be evacuated from the Statue of Liberty on Independence Day after a group of activists protesting against the US government’s immigration enforcement agency caused a disruption.

Several people hung a banner from the statue’s pedestal calling for the abolition of ICE. After they were arrested, another person managed to climb the monument’s base and stay there for over two hours. The climber was holding a t-shirt that says ‘Rise and Resist’ and ‘Trump Care Makes Us Sick.’

The woman stopped at the bottom of the statue itself, laying and sitting under Lady Liberty’s half-raised right foot, some 100 feet (30m) above ground level. Police used ladders to climb up to the ledge and, after trying to talk her into coming down, proceeded to approach her and put a climbing harness on her to help her down.

An organizer of Rise and Resist, the group behind the anti-ICE banner, said the woman was affiliated with the group, but her climb was not planned as a part of the protest.

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