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"Occupy Wall Street activist Cecily McMillan on Monday received a three-month prison sentence, followed by five years' probation and community service, for intentionally elbowing a New York police officer during a March 17, 2012, protest at Manhattan's Zuccotti Park.\nThe sentence handed down by Judge Ronald Zweibel, which includes credit for time served, is substantially less than what McMillan expected. When Mashable spoke with McMillan while she awaited her sentencing hearing from the Rikers Island jail, she was expecting two years in prison while facing a maximum of seven years.\nHere is video of the reported incident:\n\nWhen asked if it was all worth it, McMillan said, \"I feel like your dignity is the only thing that is worth it. I think that the value is in the morals that you set up for yourself are the only things that can\u2019t be taken away -\u2013 I think they\u2019re the only thing that nobody can take away.\" \n\nCecily McMillan is taken down the bus steps and falls as she's let go from stairs during the night of her arrest in New York City on March 17, 2012.Image:  Zach D RobertsSome of McMillan's supporters crowded outside the courtroom, protesting on her behalf: \n\n\n\nMany of McMillan's supporters petitioned Judge Zweibel to forgo a prison sentence altogether, but he insisted in Monday's hearing that she \"must take responsibility for her conduct.\"\nSee also: Occupy Activist Cecily McMillan Gets 3 Months in Prison: A Rare Interview\nMcMillan's lawyers had argued that she was willingly leaving the park the day of the incident and elbowed the officer only after he grabbed her right breast from behind. \n\nI wonder what #CecilyMcMillan's #myNYPD moment would be. #Justice4Cecily. @BilldeBlasio pic.twitter.com/iC1KXQ2RrU\n\u2014 Liuba GrechenShirley (@lgrechenshirley) May 6, 2014\n\nThe prosecution suggested that McMillan had given herself the bruises pictured on her breast, and a Manhattan jury of eight women and four men unanimously convicted her of felony assault against the police officer. Nine of the jurors then asked the judge for leniency in McMillan's sentencing.\n      window._msla=window.loadScriptAsync||function(src,id){if(document.getElementById(id))return;var js=document.createElement('script');js.id=id;js.src=src;document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0].parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);};\n_msla(\"//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js\",\"twitter_jssdk\");"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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