Woman Arrested After Dumping Blue Liquid On Charging Bull, Police Say

FINANCIAL DISTRICT, NY — Police arrested a woman who dumped a bucket of blue liquid on Wall Street's famous Charging Bull statue to protest environmental degradation, according to authorities.

Officers arrested Courtney Fallon on Friday afternoon, after she dumped a blue substance on the bull and draped a blush sash on the nearby "Fearless Girl" statue to draw attention to climate chance early on Thursday morning, police said Authorities quickly cleaned up the paint after it was left on the bull.

Fallon, 33, said she took action to draw attention to rising seal levels across the globe.

"Climate change is real and it shouldn’t be denied," Fallon told a New York Post reporter as she was walked to a police car shortly after her arrest. "Please stop denying climate change. Draw the blue line."

Fallon was charged with making graffiti and criminal mischief, both misdemeanors, police said. Patch was not immediately able to contact Fallon's attorney on Monday. (For more information on this and other neighborhood stories, subscribe to Patch to receive daily newsletters and breaking news alerts.)

Fallon's action was blasted by Mayor Bill de Blasio's spokesman Eric Phillips on Twitter.

A Twitter account that appeared to be connected with Fallon's crusade shot back, insisting that the blue liquid was "Nothing compared to the havoc that salt water will cause when the Atlantic floods FIDI."

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