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Brutalized by cops, convicted Occupy protester faces seven years in jail
Nieuws, gepost door: nn op 07/05/2014 05:08:13
Wanneer: 07/05/2014 - 19:37
Cecily McMillan, a 25-year-old student and Occupy Wall Street activist,
was taken away in handcuffs to New York City’s Rikers Island prison
complex Monday after being convicted on trumped up charges
of assaulting a policeman during a protest two years ago.
The trial was apparently the last for Occupy Wall Street protesters,
nearly 3,000 of whom were arrested in a massive crackdown ordered
by New York City’s then mayor, billionaire Michael Bloomberg, in 2011 and 2012.
McMillan, who was herself brutally beaten by cops and suffered a seizure
in the March 17, 2012 incident, faces up to seven years imprisonment
when she is sentenced on May 19.
Artikel: http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2014/05/07/nypd-m07.html