A female Occupy Wall Street activist in the United States has been found guilty of assaulting a police officer and now faces between two and seven years in prison.

Cecily McMillan was found guilty on Monday for deliberately elbowing New York police officer GrantleyBovell in the face in March 2012.

Bovell testified in court that McMillan intentionally hit him in the face on March 17, 2012, as he was helping fellow officers clear Zuccotti Park during a protest marking six months since the creation of the Occupy Wall Street [amazon asin=1594035229&template=*lrc ad (left)]movement in September 2011.

McMillan, 25, a graduate student, countered that she went to Zuccotti Park to meet a friend, not to be part of the protest. She said she felt someone trying to physically abuse her, so she instinctively struck back.

Judge Ronald Zweibel ordered McMillan held without bail pending sentencing May 19. However, activists and legal experts are saying she didn’t receive a fair trial.[amazon asin=1610166248&template=*lrc ad (right)]

Several members of the anti-Wall Street Occupy movement shouted “shame” and refused to leave the courtroom when the verdict was announced following three hours of deliberations.

A group of Occupy activists called the Cecily McMillan Support Committee accused the judge of having manipulated the jury to reach a verdict that would send a pro-business message.

[amazon asin=1930865635&template=*lrc ad (left)]”It has been clear from day one that Cecily has not received a fair and open trial. The job of a judge during a jury trial isn’t to guide the verdict to fit his opinion,” the group said in a statement, which labeled Zweibel “a prosecutor in robes.”

According to their website, Occupy Wall Street is a people-powered movement that began on September 17, 2011 in Liberty Square in Manhattan’s Financial District, and had spread to over 100 cities in the United States over about a year.

The movement is fighting back against the corrosive power of major banks and multinational corporations over the US democratic process, and the role of Wall Street in creating an economic collapse that has caused the greatest recession in generations.

Reprinted from Press TV.

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