a then 23-year-old cecile mcmillan was in the park. he chaos, she felt a hand grip her right breast and she instinctively threw up her elbow. mcmillan says she suffered a seizure after being detained by police. officers carried her body and stood around her convulsing body. it took 15-20 minutes before an ambulance took mcmillan away. in the youtube videos, you can hear the confusion and con certa -- concern. >> where are the medics? >> these are photos her friends shared. further help to piece together the altercation. the dark mark above her eye and the print on her chest are black and blue evidence that a police officer assaulted her. >> her skirt was way above - they are over here. i ran to get one of the mediation. >> the n.y.p.d. did not charge an officer with assault. instead cecile mcmillan faces charges of assault with a 7-year prison term. two years later, her trial is set to begin. >> of 8,000 occupy wall street arrests, a quarter took place in new york city. according to a joint report from n.y.u. and the fordham school of l

of whom engaged in brutal tactics in the instance of twenty three year old occupy activists cecille e mcmillana confrontation with an officer on the night of march seventeenth two thousand and twelve resulted in a being that left turn conscious before she was arrested and detained of all that was documented but instead of being able to sue the officers that beat her no one was charged with a felony assault which carries a jail sentence of up to seven years while this week mcmillan's trial began in new york city so to talk more about her case and the reason why this trial deserves more attention i'm joined by two volunteers of the justice for south of the mcmillan camp. jane jani miller and lucy parks thanks so much for coming on both of you. thank you for having me here thank you so much johnny let's start with you you were present at the time of sicily's arrest in two thousand and twelve can you walk us through exactly what happened that night. sure so this was march seventeenth two thousand and twelve which was the six month anniversary of occupy throughout the day it was a very festive atmo