From The Washington Post-A retired Episcopal bishop and a Harlem priest were among seven people convicted Monday (June 18) on charges of trespassing on property owned by one of the Episcopal Church’s wealthiest parishes at the height of the Occupy protests.
Bishop George Packard, who oversaw the military and federal ministries before he retired, and the Rev. Earl Kooperkamp of St. Mary’s Episcopal Church in Harlem, were sentenced to four days of community service. They had faced up to 90 days in prison on the most serious charge, Packard’s lawyer, Gideon Oliver, told Episcopal News Service.
An eighth defendant, Mark Adams, was sentenced to 45 days on charges of trespassing, attempted criminal mischief and attempted possession of burglar’s tools, reportedly for trying to use bolt-cutters to slice through the fence surrounding a parcel of land owned by Trinity Church, off Wall Street in downtown Manhattan.
Trinity’s rector, the Rev. James Cooper, said the landmark church supported many of the Occupy movement’s goals and would continue to welcome protestors to its facilities in the Wall Street neighborhood, but said in a statement that it did “not support the seizure of private property.”
More here-
http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/on-faith/episcopal-clergy-convicted-after-ny-occupy-demonstration/2012/06/19/gJQAxOWcoV_story.html
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