NYState: Occupy activist’s trial opens in N.Y.C.

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If you want to assault anyone, take your punishment and quit spending thousands of OUR dollars on tying up courts with this BS.

http://rochesterdemocrat.ny.newsmemory.com/
Jennifer Peltz

Associated Press

NEW YORK — An Occu­py Wall Street activist charged with assaulting a police officer went on trial Friday, with her law­yers saying she was wrongly accused in one of few still-lingering crimi­nal cases that sprang from the protest move­ment.

Cecily McMillan is charged with deliberately elbowing an officer in the eye as police cleared peo­ple out of the movement’s home base, Zuccotti Park, at Occupy’s six-month ob­servance in March 2012. But her defense says Mc-Millan was startled and knocked the officer acci­dentally after he grabbed her left breast from be­hind, leaving her bruised.

The 25-year-old gradu­ate student’s felony trial has become a rallying point for activists, and dozens came to a Manhat­tan court to watch Fri­day’s opening statements. While more than 2,600…

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