Occupy Protester on Trial for Assaulting Cop Who Grabbed Her Breast Testifies on Her Own Behalf
April 30, 2014 |
MANHATTAN (CN) - The Occupy Wall Street protester accused of elbowing a police officer during a rally took the stand Tuesday on her own behalf, saying she has always been a staunch supporter of nonviolent, peaceful protest.
Cecily McMillan, 25, said she did not attend the first day of the Occupy Wall Street Movement on Sept. 17, 2011 out of fear that the assembly had the “potential to be violent.”
When she did attend the rally at Zuccotti Park in Lower Manhattan the next day, she said she made it a point to relay to her protesting peers “that we stand against violence.”
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