Tag: OWS
In 2011, Michael Pellagatti was one of the thousands of protesters of Occupy Wall Street who gathered in Zucotti Park to rally against the nation’s crippling financial system. In 2015, he continues to roam those streets to keep its memory alive and ensure the message is present in the area the international movement started. For […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
Josh Boss, a journalist who was violently arrested while documenting a peaceful Occupy Wall Street March in 2011, will receive a $55,000 settlement from the city. A video of the altercation surrounding Boss’s arrest — in which Thomas Purtell throws him to the ground, then puts his knee in Boss’s face — is above. Boss […]
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 […]
The drama never stops coming in the case of last month’s motorcycle-vs.-SUV chaos. Wojciech Braszczok, an undercover detective who rode with the motorcycle gang, had his charges upgraded from criminal mischief and riot to assault and gang assault (the riot charge was dropped) for his involvement in the attack on SUV driver Alexian Lien. In a […]
This morning, I headed down to Zuccotti Park, formerly known as Liberty Plaza to witness what I assumed would be a massive celebration of Occupy Wall Street’s two year anniversary. Only about 120 people showed up — at least 30% of them were journalists — and protesters who carried large bags or held signs on […]
By many accounts, Zuccoti Park is much quieter today, on the second anniversary of Occupy Wall Street, than it was last year or during the movement’s 2011 inception. Still, that hasn’t stopped police from harassing protesters like they always do, or from taking advantage of a 150-year-old law that allows them to arrest anyone wearing […]
To mark the second anniversary of Occupy Wall Street, documentarian Paul Sullivan released this film he made of the protests and police response that happened last year. The footage is infuriating, as cops repeatedly violently grab peaceful protesters out of the crowd, throw them to the ground, and cuff them. At the end of the […]
