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hrmjustin

(71,265 posts) Sat Oct 11, 2014, 06:43 PM Oct 2014

Occupy Wall Street Activist Cecily McMillan Acquitted Of Obstructing Police

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork/AP) – After being convicted of assaulting a police officer, an Occupy Wall Street protester who became a rallying point for activists was cleared Friday of charges stemming from another confrontation with police.

Cecily McMillan was acquitted of obstructing government administration, after her second trial this year.

It came three months after her release from jail in her earlier case, which stemmed from an encounter with police at an Occupy gathering and made the 26-year-old graduate student a celebrated figure among protesters and sympathizers.

http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2014/10/11/occupy-wall-street-activist-cecily-mcmillan-acquitted-of-obstructing-police/?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

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