As Another Major Bank Avoids Jail, Occupy Wall Street Protester Cecily McMillan Gets 3 Month Term | Free Speech TV
As Another Major Bank Avoids Jail, Occupy Wall Street Protester Cecily McMillan Gets 3 Month Term | Free Speech TV
While no Credit Suisse executives will be heading to jail for
facilitating widespread tax evasion, Occupy Wall Street protester Cecily
McMillan has been sentenced to three months in jail and five years of
probation. McMillan was arrested in March 2012 as protesters tried to
re-occupy Zuccotti Park. She was convicted of deliberately striking an
officer with her elbow. McMillan says she swung her arm instinctively
after being grabbed in the right breast from behind. Facing up to seven
years in prison, McMillan's case sparked national outcry and pleas for
leniency — even from a majority of the jurors who initially found her
guilty.
