Therese Patricia Okoumou climbed up the outside of the Statue of Liberty as a protest against imprisonment of refugees.

Thugs responded by forcing all visitors off the island.

I think this is an example of intentional overreaction. Ordinary overreaction is based on misunderstanding — for instance, mistaking a phone for a gun and shooting the "armed suspect". Intentional overreaction is an act of propaganda — an taking actions that are clearly unwarranted with the aim of convincing people that such actions are warranted.

Ms Okoumou is now threatened with a year's imprisonment, which demonstrates how many ways thugs have developed to construe a peaceful and harmless protest as a crime.