A judge on Tuesday sentenced activist Lauren Handy to four years and nine months in prison for leading a blockade at an abortion clinic in Washington in 2020.
A judge on Tuesday sentenced activist Lauren Handy to four years and nine months in prison for leading a blockade at an
The DOJ asked Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly to sentence Handy to 6.5 years, saying in a sentencing memorandum that Handy and one of her co-defendants were the two “masterminds who chose the clinic, advertised the event, recruited participants, and planned the crime.” Prosecutors noted that the protest was not entirely peaceful as some of the co-defendants pushed their way into the clinic entrance, causing employees to fall to the ground, including a nurse who sprained her ankle. A few of the participants chained themselves together and used chairs to block the clinic entrance for hours until they were arrested.
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