Trial of Cecily McMillan on assault charge begins in New York
Defence says Officer Grantley Bovell 'grabbed right breast'
An Occupy Wall Street activist asked if she was being filmed before intentionally elbowing a New York police officer in the face, prosecutors told a court on Friday, as her lawyers argued that she struck out instinctively after having one of her breasts grabbed from behind.
Video footage will show that Cecily McMillan "crouched down, then bent her knees, and then aimed her elbow at the officer and then jumped up to strike" the officer as he led her away from a protest in lower Manhattan's Zuccotti Park in March 2012, Erin Choi, an assistant district attorney, told the jury in her opening argument in McMillan's trial for assault.
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Defence says Officer Grantley Bovell 'grabbed right breast'
An Occupy Wall Street activist asked if she was being filmed before intentionally elbowing a New York police officer in the face, prosecutors told a court on Friday, as her lawyers argued that she struck out instinctively after having one of her breasts grabbed from behind.
Video footage will show that Cecily McMillan "crouched down, then bent her knees, and then aimed her elbow at the officer and then jumped up to strike" the officer as he led her away from a protest in lower Manhattan's Zuccotti Park in March 2012, Erin Choi, an assistant district attorney, told the jury in her opening argument in McMillan's trial for assault.
Continue reading... Reported by guardian.co.uk 3 hours ago.