O SHIT: Cecily McMillan jurors tell judge Occupy activist should not go to jail

[Dustlawyer]

32. If she didn't know he was a cop the whole charge should have been thrown out.

Jurors tend to give a police officer's testimony more weight. If this bruise was caused in the initial grab as she testified, and had she not been ordered to do anything that she had refused to do prior to the grab, it is the officer and not this woman who should be on trial.
We do not know what all the jurors heard and saw in that trial, but from what I have seen of the evidentiary rulings the Judge made, this case may have been shaped by the Judge to obtain the result he wanted. Judges are people too, people with a lot of power over you and I if we are charged with something. Most will give you a fair trial, but some come to the Bench with an agenda. This is why you hear of outlandish rulings and buddy deals. Sometimes the State Bars are quick to discipline, other times not so much.