Sunday, May 6, 2012

20 convicted Friday of disorderly conduct in NYC following protest

Cornel West. Image taken at the annual meeting...
Cornel West. Image taken at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association in New York City, August 2007. Source: Charity Hoffman (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

BREAKING NEWS: Princeton Professor Arrested With Others

By: Jennifer Peltz
Date: 5/5/12

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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