NEW YORK — Twenty activists were convicted Friday of
disorderly conduct at a protest over a contentious police policy, ending a trial that they used to spotlight their message but that prosecutors said was about the conduct of the protesters, not the police.
A
Manhattan judge convicted all the
defendants in one of the biggest
political protest group trials in the city in recent years. It drew extra attention for counting
Princeton University professor and civil rights advocate
Cornel West among the defendants, arrested Oct. 21 while standing in front of a
police station door to protest the stopping, questioning and sometimes frisking of hundreds of thousands of people annually.
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