Cecily McMillan got a light sentence:
NEW YORK (Reuters) – An Occupy Wall Street protester convicted of assaulting a police officer during a demonstration two years ago was sentenced on Monday to a 90-day jail term.
A New York jury on May 5 found Cecily McMillan guilty of elbowing a police officer, Grantley Bovell, in the eye as he was attempting to arrest her.
McMillan, 25, was arrested along with scores of others on March 17, 2012 at a demonstration marking the protest movement’s six-month anniversary in New York City.
While thousands of people were arrested during Occupy protests in 2011 and 2012, most of those cases were dismissed, some were resolved out of court and just 67 have gone to trial.
It is still a travesty.
Sometimes the whole point of any protest is to get arrested. To stand trial, be convicted, serve a little time and then appeal your conviction. Laws don’t change themselves. Injustice forces that change. Hats off to the real activists. Like Cecily.