Deconstructing Cecily
by digby
Bag News Notes did what it does best and thoroughly deconstructed the video and pictures of the events on the night Cecily McMillan allegedly attacked a police officer. Perhaps what’s most important is that they provide a full picture of the context for the incident which cannot help but illuminate it. One would think that the legal system, in a pursuit of justice, would have found that context to be important. Instead, they isolated the incident is extremely narrow fashion — which resulted in only certain facts being considered at the expense of the truth.
It’s a fascinating set of pictures and videos. In the end you will undoubtedly see the incident differently than the jury did with the myopic view they were presented. There is little doubt that it was Cecily McMillan who was assaulted, not that police officer.
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