Liberty Protest News Today

That you can see, those are members of the emergency services unit. the nypd. those are highly trained, highly skilled officers. who are right now in a harness system with each other and on to that ladder and are trying to coax that woman to get closer to them so they can put a harness on her and get her down to safety. now, this is the eighth person, a part of a protest of earlier today. police actually got a call about 3:15 of protesters at the foot of the statue of liberty with a sign saying ...

Day. its usually packed with tourists. those people are trained to have these conversations and, yes, no hostage but they deal with people who are suicidal, in this case, it seems to be a protester. theyre trained but again the hostage negotiation team even more trained in these situations so this really more just reinforcement on the way to help the esu officers try to help gtr her down. >> we have phil mudd here. works in counter terrorism. you as you look at this unfold here now, how difficul...

Do we have any idea who this person is? >> reporter: this happened a little bit earlier today and there was a total of eight people that were in protest. one point, holding up a huge sign that said "abolish i.c.e." seven of those people under arrest. but now as you look at this video, you can see in the corner of that green section, the base of the statue of liberty, is one person holding some sort of sign. and a little bit lower than them, the heads you see there, thats nypd personnel. specific...

Give us your tired and poor and that protest about immigration, i.c.e., family separation, et cetera. i want to bring in phil mudd, who, of course, worked in counter terrorism for fbi and cia. you know new york city very well. how seriously would they approach this situation on a holiday, number of me believes of the public visiting, as well. >> you step back and say this is a protest that fits into the context of the united states in the past week or two. as a counter terrorism professional, yo...

Im sure the investigators will spend the afternoon taking off july fourth to investigate, intent. how can we reassure ourselves of one of the toughest things, the negative. how can we be guaranteed they didnt intend to do harm to anybody? it looks like a protest. i as a member of the public for eight years would say its protest. you cant make an assumption if youre an investigator. >> joining us now, live pictures of the sta dhu in liberty. theres a wider shot. liberty island is shut down. a num...

Under arrest once they safely get to her. >> you are seeing in effect that the final remaining protester that there were a number there before, they released a ben carson. talki talking about abolishing i.c.e., so involved in these immigration images, now the police there setting up a device to safely get the final protester down. well keep an eye on this story going forward. ill just go back to phil now. based on what we heard there, you have a final protest it appears. and theyre -- seems like...

Talk to feem gpeople down. i wish we could find it out, certainly. the base to where this person is, how far above ground were talking here. but its pretty significant climb that this person has made already. again, seven people already climbed a bit of the statue of liberty in their protest. holding up this sign and then this eighth person went even further. as you already mentioned, jim, the liberty island has been evacuated. this is a huge section, of course, of the harbor here in new york ci...

Them and lead them down safely. what im told then from there this person taken on a boat as i told you hudson -- the water unit, harbor unit of the nypd is there. theyre going to put this person on the boat and bring them directly to most likely the staten island ferry terminal on the manhattan side to put them under arrest. >> okay. so, bryn -- >> see this person. go ahead. >> it is one protester whos there. there was some talk of maybe multiple. to our knowledge one person? >> theres -- >> and...