This was a mob of outside agitators including Therese Okoumou, the woman from Congo who climbed the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty.
Police in El Paso, Texas, have issued arrest warrants for 16 people who took part in a vandalism incident at the U.S. Border Patrol Museum in February, a museum official has confirmed to the Washington Examiner.
Police records indicate 15 of the 16 protesters are not residents of Texas and would have had to travel to attend the Feb. 16 event. The charges range from criminal trespass to criminal mischief resulting in $2,500 to $30,000 in damage. The suspects have been asked to surrender to El Paso police.
Museum director David Ham told the Washington Examiner the museum was overtaken by masked protesters on a Saturday in mid-February by members of a group called Tornillo: the Occupation. About 50 people entered the facility, defaced property, and refused to leave the grounds.
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“They proceeded to set up a bunch of signs and just went all over the museum. They of course had an agenda, they were chanting and singing songs, and then a couple of them got on a bullhorn,” Ham said. “We had visitors in the museum. They started talking and kind of harassing them. Of course the staff was asking them to leave, and they wouldn’t leave.” Protesters glued 110 images on pictures, glass, painted walls, mannequins, and vehicles throughout the building. They also posted the pictures on the faces of Border Patrol agents who died in the line of duty.
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One of the protest organizers, Elizabeth Vega, was previously involved in demonstrations in Ferguson, Mo., following the police shooting of Michael Brown in 2014. Another protester is Therese Okoumou, who climbed the Statue of Liberty as a protest against President Trump’s immigration policies on Jan. 5, 2018. She was not arrested.