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July 18, 2014 Sophie Weiner

Two weeks after Occupy Wall Street protester Cecily McMillan was let out Rikers for elbowing an officer in Zuccotti Park, she was back in court on Thursday to answer unrelated charges that also happened to involve a confrontation with police reports the New York Times. In 2013, McMillan was arrested in Union Square subway station […]

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July 3, 2014 Sophie Weiner

Occupy Wall Street activist Cecily McMillan, who was charged with a felony for elbowing a police officer, is out of Rikers Island after serving 58 days of her 90 day sentence. She was facing up to seven years after her conviction. According to the AP she was let out after serving less than a third […]

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May 19, 2014 Andy Cush

Cecily McMillan, the Occupy protester who was charged with assaulting a police officer after an incident the night of March 17, 2012, was sentenced to 90 days in prison minus time served and five years probation on Monday. The courtroom inside the Criminal Courts Building was at capacity when ANIMAL arrived this morning as dozens of demonstrators […]

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May 9, 2014 Marina Galperina

Nadya Tolokonnikova and Masha Alyokhina, members of the Russian punk group Pussy Riot visited Rikers Island today, and spent several hours with 25-year-old protestor Cecily McMillan. McMillan was arrested for elbowing a cop who she said grabbed and bruised her breast during an Occupy Wall Street demonstration in 2012, was found guilty assaulting a police officer, and is awaiting sentencing […]

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Andy Cush

Cecily McMillan, who was arrested for elbowing a cop during an Occupy Wall Street demonstration 2012, was found guilty of assaulting a police officer earlier this week. Now, nine of the twelve jurors who convicted her have written a letter to the judge, urging him not to send her to prison “We the jury petition […]

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May 6, 2014 Andy Cush

Cecily McMillan who allegedly elbowed a cop after he grabbed her breast during Occupy demonstrations on March 17, 2012, was found guilty of assaulting a police officer yesterday afternoon. She was denied bail, and will be held at Rikers Island until her sentencing May 19. Assaulting a police officer carries a maximum sentence of seven years. […]

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February 10, 2014 Andy Cush

Cecily McMillan, the Ocuppy Wall Street activist who suffered seizures after a violent encounter with cops in Zuccotti Park in 2012, goes to trial this week, and faces up to seven years in jail. The crime is the assault of a police officer; she allegedly elbowed a cop after he grabbed her breast during the […]

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