作者:阿米蒂·帕耶
发布时间:2014-05-11
来源:乌有之乡
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根据周一的裁决,麦克米兰成为首位面临牢狱之灾的占领运动活动家之一。
阿米蒂·帕耶(Amity Paye),2014年5月6日
2010年“占领华尔街”活动家塞西莉·麦克米兰(右)在祖科蒂公园(图片来源:美联社)
在过去的两年中,“占领华尔街”活动家塞西莉·麦克米兰在法庭进进出出。当陪审团发现她犯有二级攻击罪时,她成为首位面临严重的牢狱之灾的占领抗议者之一。该罪可判7年监禁。
2012年3月17日,麦克米兰参加一个抗议活动,庆祝“占领华尔街”运动半周年,当她离开祖科蒂公园时遭到逮捕。她是当晚被逮捕的大约70名抗议者之一,他们中的大多数人已经解除了指控。但是当麦克米兰被指控犯有攻击纽约警察局官员格兰特利·博维尔(GrantleyBovell)的罪行时,她坚持认为她是本能反应,在她被逮捕时她的胸部被抓,因此肘击了博约尔的脸部。在这个事件中,她遭到殴打,背部、肩膀、头部和胸部有多处切伤和擦伤,在送往医院之前癫痫发作。
周一(5月5日),麦克米兰被直接送到雷克岛,直到5月19日。在这天,她将受到最终判决。
“塞西莉被判有罪。下午六点自由广场团结集会。没有公正?没有和平!#为塞西莉声张正义小组,”占领华尔街运动通讯小组把上述这条短信发送给了成百上千的占领运动活动家和支持者。
在麦克米兰被宣判有罪之后,她的支持者立即在法院外集合,前往祖科蒂公园集会。在该集会上,超过50名抗议者高喊“起诉警察性侵犯”,并进行了演讲。其它人身穿有粉红色手印图案的衣服,象征麦克米兰遭受的攻击,而法院禁止穿这种衣服。他们还在水泥上用粉笔写下标语:“警告!纽约警察局可能在本公园对你性侵犯。”
尽管她的支持者为了正义呼喊,裁决结果并非全然出乎意料。在3月,麦克米兰的朋友和支持者在她家举办了一个聚会,名叫“最后一支舞”。而麦克米兰也已经开始处理自己的事务,为4月7日的法律程序做准备。假如她未被判有罪,塞西莉的朋友说她计划修完硕士学位,最终搬到亚特兰大。
“每个人都很难过,我想我们中的一些人很吃惊,但是大部分人对这个裁决并不感到意外……这是合法的歪曲,但是我并不震惊,为塞西莉声张正义小组的成员尤尼·米勒(Yoni Miller)说。该小组是由一群老兵组成,他们组织起来支持麦克米兰。
对麦克米兰的审判漫长而拖沓。两年多后,由于陪审团的选择问题,审判程序再次推迟到4月7日。而占领活动家们争论谁应首先受审,塞西莉还是博维尔警官,罗纳德·齐威波(Ronald Zweibel)法官一再否决法庭审理程序中包含有“占领华尔街运动”警方暴力这个更大的背景。
周一,为塞西莉声张正义小组在一份声明中写到,“事情很清楚,从一开始塞西莉就没有得到公正公开的审判。在陪审团审判时,法官的职责不是引导判决结果符合他自己的观点。齐威波法官一直在隐瞒证据,他始终站在公诉人一方,已经清楚地证明了他有明显偏见。”
“她在法庭上已经受审大约超过了40次”,为塞西莉声张正义小组成员斯坦·威廉姆斯说,“我们一直在等待,那是个很大的压力。”
然而,虽然审判结果也许还不算是意外,结果仍然打破了纽约占领运动的趋势。在事件当晚,占领运动活动家肖恩·施拉德尔(Shawn Schrader)和麦克米兰一样也被送往医院。在12月,他获得了纽约警察局82500美元的和解金额。而在三月,另一名占领运动活动家迈克尔·普里莫被判无罪,他的律师们利用他被逮捕的视频,证明他没有攻击警官的行为,纽约警察局捏造了这个事件的事实。在整个国家,占领抗议者们同样没有发现有犯罪行为,案件或者被驳回,或者从他们被逮捕的警察机关获得大量的和解金额。
麦克米兰的有罪裁决使她成为一小群占领抗议者中的一员,这些抗议者在被逮捕后实际上被监禁。另一个案例是马克·亚当斯(Mark Adams),他是一名占领运动活动家,参与了纽约杜瓦特广场的抗议活动。2012年当他在雷克斯岛监狱服刑29天后,他被称为占领运动“第一个政治犯”。
在麦克米兰待在雷克斯岛的十三天里,她的律师团队将准备上诉。为塞西莉声张正义小组成员也已经开始公布麦克米兰的东艾姆赫斯特地址,并敦促支持者们给她发邮件,他们会把这些邮件转发给雷克斯岛的麦克米兰。
2月9日,麦克米兰在她的最后一次公开声明中说,“亲爱的同志们,正是因为你们,我将昂首挺胸走进法庭;能和你们站在一起战斗,我真的感到很荣幸。占领!”
中英对照版
Guilty: Occupy Activist Cecily McMillan Now Faces up to 7 Years in Prison
With Monday’s verdict, McMillan became one of the first Occupy activists to face serious jail time.
Amity Paye May 6, 2014
占领活动家塞西莉·麦克米兰面临最高7年监禁
根据周一的裁决,麦克米兰成为首位面临牢狱之灾的占领运动活动家之一
阿米蒂·帕耶(Amity Paye),2014年5月6日
2010年“占领华尔街”活动家塞西莉·麦克米兰(右)在祖科蒂公园(图片来源:美联社)
Occupy Wall Street activist Cecily McMillan has been in and out of court for the past two years. On Monday, she became one of the first Occupy protesters to face serious jail time when jurors found her guilty of second-degree assault, which could carry a seven-year sentence.
在过去的两年中,“占领华尔街”活动家塞西莉·麦克米兰在法庭进进出出。当陪审团发现她犯有二级攻击罪时,她成为首位面临严重的牢狱之灾的占领抗议者之一。该罪可判7年监禁。
McMillan was arrested on March 17, 2012, as she left Zuccotti Park during a protest to celebrate the six-month anniversary of OWS. She was one of about seventy arrested that night, most of whom have had their charges dropped. But while McMillan has been found guilty of assaulting NYPD officer GrantleyBovell, she maintains that she reacted instinctively, elbowing Bovell in the face after her breast was grabbed during her arrest.
During the incident she was beaten and suffered a seizure before being hospitalized for cuts and bruises on her back, shoulders, head and breast.
2012年3月17日,麦克米兰参加一个抗议活动,庆祝“占领华尔街”运动半周年,当她离开祖科蒂公园时遭到逮捕。她是当晚被逮捕的大约70名抗议者之一,他们中的大多数人已经解除了指控。但是当麦克米兰被指控犯有攻击纽约警察局官员格兰特利·博维尔(GrantleyBovell)的罪行时,她坚持认为她是本能反应,在她被逮捕时她的胸部被抓,因此肘击了博约尔的脸部。在这个事件中,她遭到殴打,背部、肩膀、头部和胸部有多处切伤和擦伤,在送往医院之前癫痫发作。
Monday, McMillan was sent directly to Rikers Island until May 19, when she will receive her final sentencing.
周一(5月5日),麦克米兰被直接送到雷克岛,直到5月19日。在这天,她将受到最终判决。
“Cecily has been found guilty. 6pm solidarity rally at Liberty Square. No JUSTICE? No PEACE! #Justice4Cecily,” read the text message sent out to hundreds of Occupy supporters and activists by the OWS communications team.
“塞西莉被判有罪。下午六点自由广场团结集会。没有公正?没有和平!#为塞西莉声张正义小组,”占领华尔街运动通讯小组把上述这条短信发送给了成百上千的占领运动活动家和支持者。
McMillan’s supporters rallied immediately outside the courthouse after her guilty verdict was announced and headed to Zuccotti. At the rally, more than fifty protesters chanted, “Prosecute the cops for sexual assault,” and held a speak-out. Others wore cut-outs of pink handprints, which were banned from court, symbolizing McMillan’s assault, and chalked statements on the cement that read, “warning NYPD may sexually assault you in this park.”
在麦克米兰被宣判有罪之后,她的支持者立即在法院外集合,前往祖科蒂公园集会。在该集会上,超过50名抗议者高喊“起诉警察性侵犯”,并进行了演讲。其它人身穿有粉红色手印图案的衣服,象征麦克米兰遭受的攻击,而法院禁止穿这种衣服。他们还在水泥上用粉笔写下标语:“警告!纽约警察局可能在本公园对你性侵犯。”
But while her supporters cried justice, the verdict was not all that unexpected. In March, McMillan’s friends and supporters held a gathering at her house called “the last dance” and McMillan had begun to
get her affairs in orderfor the start of proceedings on April 7. If she had not been found guilty, Cecily’s friends say she planned to finish her masters degree and eventually move to Atlanta.
尽管她的支持者为了正义呼喊,裁决结果并非全然出乎意料。在3月,麦克米兰的朋友和支持者在她家举办了一个聚会,名叫“最后一支舞”。而麦克米兰也已经开始处理自己的事务,为4月7日的法律程序做准备。假如她未被判有罪,塞西莉的朋友说她计划修完硕士学位,最终搬到亚特兰大。
“Everyone is quite upset and I think some of us are quite surprised but most of us are not surprised at the verdict….It’s a legal travesty but I am not shocked,” said Yoni Miller, a member of the #JusticeforCecily Team, a group of Occupy veterans organizing to help support McMillan.
“每个人都很难过,我想我们中的一些人很吃惊,但是大部分人对这个裁决并不感到意外……这是合法的歪曲,但是我并不震惊,为塞西莉声张正义小组的成员尤尼·米勒(Yoni Miller)说。该小组是由一群老兵组成,他们组织起来支持麦克米兰。
McMillan’s trial was long and drawn out. After more than two years, proceedings were postponed yet again on April 7 because of issues with jury selection. While activists argued over who should be tried (Cecily or Officer Bovell) in the first place, Judge Ronald Zweibel repeatedly ruled against the inclusion in court proceedings of the larger context of OWS police violence.
对麦克米兰的审判漫长而冗长。两年多后,由于陪审团的选择问题,审判程序再次推迟到4月7日。而占领活动家们争论谁应首先受审,塞西莉还是博维尔警官,罗纳德·齐威波(Ronald Zweibel)法官一再否决法庭审理程序中包含有“占领华尔街运动”警方暴力这个更大的背景。
“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. Judge Zweibel, who consistently suppressed evidence, has demonstrated his clear bias by consistently siding with the prosecution,” wrote the #Justice4Cecily Team in a statement Monday.
周一,为塞西莉声张正义小组在一份声明中写到,“事情很清楚,从一开始塞西莉就没有得到公正公开的审判。在陪审团审判时,法官的职责不是引导判决结果符合他自己的观点。齐威波法官一直在隐瞒证据,他始终站在公诉人一方,已经清楚地证明了他有明显偏见。”
“Its been something like over forty times that she’s been in court about this trial,” said Stan Williams, a member of the #JusticeforCecily Team. “We have been always waiting and that’s a big stress.”
“她在法庭上已经受审大约超过了40次”,为塞西莉声张正义小组成员斯坦·威廉姆斯说,“我们一直在等待,那是个很大的压力。”
However, while the verdict may not have been a surprise, the outcome still breaks with the trend of Occupy cases in New York. Occupy activist Shawn Schrader, who was also hospitalized on the same night as McMillan’s incident, won an $82,500 settlement against the NYPD in December. In March, another Occupy activist, Michael Primo, was found not guilty of assaulting an officer after his lawyers were able to prove, using video of his arrest, that the NYPD had fabricated information about the incident.
Around the country Occupy protesters have similarly been found not guilty, had cases dismissed or received large settlements from their arresting police force.
然而,虽然审判结果也许还不算是意外,结果仍然打破了纽约占领运动的趋势。在事件当晚,占领运动活动家肖恩·施拉德尔(Shawn Schrader)和麦克米兰一样也被送往医院。在12月,他获得了纽约警察局82500美元的和解金额。而在三月,另一名占领运动活动家迈克尔·普里莫被判无罪,他的律师们利用他被逮捕的视频,证明他没有攻击警官的行为,纽约警察局捏造了这个事件的事实。在整个国家,占领抗议者们同样没有发现有犯罪行为,案件或者被驳回,或者从他们被逮捕的警察机关获得大量的和解金额。
McMillan’s guilty verdict puts her among a tiny group of Occupy protesters actually jailed after their arrests. One other example is Mark Adams, an activist who has been called the “first political prisoner” of the Occupy Movement after serving twenty-nine days in jail on Rikers Island in 2012 for his involvement in a protest at New York’s Duarte Square.
麦克米兰的有罪裁决使她成为一小群占领抗议者中的一员,这些抗议者在被逮捕后实际上被监禁。另一个案例是马克·亚当斯(Mark Adams),他是一名占领运动活动家,参与了纽约杜瓦特广场的抗议活动。2012年当他在雷克斯岛监狱服刑29天后,他被称为占领运动“第一个政治犯”。
During the thirteen days that McMillan will spend at Rikers Island, her legal team will prepare her case for appeals. Members of the Justice for Cecily team have also begun to publicize McMillan’s East Elmhurst address and urge her supporters to send her mail, which they will then forward to her at Rikers.
在麦克米兰待在雷克斯岛的十三天里,她的律师团队将准备上诉。为塞西莉声张正义小组成员也已经开始公布麦克米兰的东艾姆赫斯特地址,并敦促支持者们给她发邮件,他们会把这些邮件转发给雷克斯岛的麦克米兰。
“Dearest comrades,” wrote McMillan in her last public statement on February 9. “It is because of you that I will walk into that courtroom with my head held high; I am truly honored to stand beside you. Occupy.”
2月9日,麦克米兰在她的最后一次公开声明中说,“亲爱的同志们,正是因为你们,我将昂首挺胸走进法庭;能和你们站在一起战斗,我真的感到很荣幸。占领!”