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February 11, 2014

Occupy Activist Faces up to Seven Years in Jail for 'Assault' on Police Officer

Adam Gabbatt The Guardian

Cecily McMillan, 25, faces up to seven years in jail after being charged with assault in the second degree, a Class D felony in New York. Police allege that McMillan elbowed an officer in the head during a protest in lower Manhattan in March 2012.

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