{"id":107660,"date":"2014-02-11T19:19:59","date_gmt":"2014-02-11T19:19:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=107660"},"modified":"2014-02-11T19:19:59","modified_gmt":"2014-02-11T19:19:59","slug":"occupy-activist-faces-felony-charge-elbowing-groping-cop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/latest-news\/occupy-activist-faces-felony-charge-elbowing-groping-cop\/","title":{"rendered":"Occupy Activist Faces Felony Charge For Elbowing Groping Cop"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Activist got beaten and suffered a seizure<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Abby Zimet\u00a0<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rinf.com\">RINF Alternative News<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Almost two years after the violent fact, this week sees the start of the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sparrowmedia.net\/2014\/02\/cecily-mcmillan-trial-occupy-wall-street\/\"><strong>trial<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0of Cecily McMillan, a graduate student who suffered a seizure after her brutal\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/occupywallstreet.net\/story\/occupy-wall-street-activist-cecily-mcmillan-may-face-7-years-being-assaulted-nypd\"><strong>arrest\u00a0<\/strong><\/a>during a March 2012 NYPD\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2012\/mar\/20\/occupy-protesters-nypd-clashes\"><strong>crackdown<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0on Zuccotti Park and was subsequently, inexplicably charged with felony assault on an officer &#8211; charges that carry up to seven years in prison. Chilling\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/gothamist.com\/2012\/03\/18\/videos_ows_protester_suffered_seizu.php\"><strong>video\u00a0<\/strong><\/a>of McMillan, lying on the ground in handcuffs, starting to heave and seize amidst a phalanx of cops as horrified activists shout, &#8220;You idiots, she needs a doctor!&#8221; Witnesses say it took 17 minutes for them to get her help and an ambulance.\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/732227263455605\/\">Updates<\/a>,<\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newschoolfreepress.com\/2012\/03\/29\/the-cecily-mcmillan-interview\/\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/a>because\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.documentcloud.org\/documents\/403969-suppressing-protest.html\"><strong>Occupy<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0and its causes still\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newschoolfreepress.com\/2012\/03\/29\/the-cecily-mcmillan-interview\/\"><strong>live.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/An8OCm-Gl2U\" height=\"315\" width=\"420\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-107661\" alt=\"nypd_arrestszuccottipk120317\" src=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/nypd_arrestszuccottipk120317.jpg\" width=\"504\" height=\"336\" srcset=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/nypd_arrestszuccottipk120317.jpg 504w, http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/nypd_arrestszuccottipk120317-75x50.jpg 75w, http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/nypd_arrestszuccottipk120317-150x100.jpg 150w, http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/nypd_arrestszuccottipk120317-383x255.jpg 383w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 504px) 100vw, 504px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Abby Zimet is a writer for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Common Dreams<\/a>.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Activist got beaten and suffered a seizure Abby Zimet\u00a0 RINF Alternative News Almost two years after the violent fact, this week sees the start of the\u00a0trial\u00a0of Cecily McMillan, a graduate student who suffered a seizure after her brutal\u00a0arrest\u00a0during a March 2012 NYPD\u00a0crackdown\u00a0on Zuccotti Park and was subsequently, inexplicably charged with felony assault on an officer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":107661,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-107660","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-latest-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107660\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/107661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}