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Occupy Wall Street activist found guilty of assaulting police office

An Occupy Wall Street activist is facing up to seven years in prison after being convicted by a jury in Manhattan of assaulting a New York police officer as he led her out of a protest.

Cecily McMillan was on Monday afternoon found guilty of deliberately elbowing Officer Grantley Bovell in the face in March 2012. After a trial lasting more than four weeks, the jury of eight women and four men reached their verdict in about three hours.
Judge Ronald Zweibel ordered that McMillan, 25, a graduate student at the New School, be detained. He rejected a request from her lawyers for bail.

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Cecily McMillan, Final Occupy Wall Street Defendant, Takes The Stand - Metropolis - WSJ
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An Occupy Wall Street member accused of assaulting a New York Police Department officer testified in her own defense Tuesday, saying she is nonviolent and advocated against using physical force inside the movement.

Cecily McMillan, a 25-year-old graduate student, is the final criminal defendant stemming from the arrests made during the months when Occupy Wall Street was camped at Zuccotti Park or tried to reclaim the lower Manhattan space after being evicted, prosecutors said.

Ms. McMillan previously declined an offer from prosecutors to plead guilty to second-degree assault on a police officer in exchange for a recommendation that she not serve prison time.

THE TRIAL COMES TO A CLOSE
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The cross-examination ended at 5pm. Closing arguments will begin Friday, May 2nd, at 9:30am, followed by jury deliberation and verdict. A press conference with Cecily’s lawyers and a prepared statement from Cecily herself will follow the verdict in front of 100 Centre St.

This verdict marks the end of a long and difficult two-year limbo for Cecily and the last big criminal case stemming from OWS. The verdict of this trial will set an important precedent for future social movements in NYC.

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Cecily McMillan: I was labeled ’Paris Hilton of Occupy Wall Street’
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Activist, on trial for deliberately assaulting a police officer as he removed protesters from Zuccotti Park in 2012, told court she was dismissed as mainstream by more radical protesters.

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