Activist who spent week in tree charged with trespassing

 

December 4, 2019



COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — A Columbia woman who spent a week in a tree to protest the city's plans to build a trail through a private nature area has been charged with trespassing.

Susan Fourcade, known better as Sutu Forte, was charged Monday with first-degree trespassing.

The Columbia Daily Tribune reports Forte began her protest Oct. 28 in in a tree on the Its Our Wild Nature group's property. The tree was one of more than 40 trees scheduled to be removed to build a 10-foot-wide path through the property. Forte was removed from the tree Nov. 5 with a fire truck's hydraulic bucket after she defied...



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