A woman who climbed up the base of the Statue of Liberty as part of a protest against the separation ofg migrant families has been taken into custody Wednesday afternoon.
Authorities tried talking the woman down for around two hours, but she refused to leave voluntarily. Officers eventually scaled up the base near Lady Liberty's foot to put a harness and ropes on her to bring her down safely, but she moved to the other side of the statue where a ladder was located.
Visitors to Liberty Island were evacuated by ferry as a precaution.
The woman had previously declared to officers she wasn't coming down until "all the children are released."
A protest group calling itself "Rise and Resist" dropped a banner reading "Abolish ICE" from the base of the statue earlier in the day. Demonstrators say in a press release they were there to protest the Trump administration's immigration policy. The organizer of the protest told CNN that the woman's climb was not part of their planned protest.
"She climbed without our knowledge. It was not part of our action. We are deeply concerned for her safety," Martin Joseph Quinn told CNN.