New York Post Reporter to Occupy Activist Cecily McMillan: "You Look Fabulous! But You Should Eat...
New York Post Reporter to Occupy Activist Cecily McMillan: "You Look Fabulous! But You Should Eat More."
Anna Merlan
Occupy Wall Street activist and New School graduate student Cecily McMillan was back in Manhattan criminal court Thursday morning, just weeks after her release from Rikers Island, where she served two months after being convicted of assaulting a police officer. The 25-year-old McMillan still faces another criminal charge, this one a misdemeanor, for obstruction of governmental administration. After a brief hearing, McMillan and her attorney, Martin Stolar, left the courthouse trailed by the usual press scrum, who immediately drilled down on the real story: McMillan's physical appearance.
"My editor told me to ask who you're wearing," a photographer informed McMillan, snapping away. She replied that her dress was Calvin Klein and her shoes were from Via Spiga.
"I'm still very concerned about my friends and family that I've left behind in Rikers," she told the assembled reporters. "I'm happy to be out, but I don't feel exactly free."
She explained that her advisors at the New School have urged her to write her master's thesis about her activism and her time in prison (her initial intention had been to write about civil-rights activist Bayard Rustin), adding that she doesn't feel safe in New York and doesn't go anywhere in the city alone.
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