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City attorney files charges against protesters who disrupted L.A. City Council meeting

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Los Angeles City Atty. Mike Feuer has filed more than a dozen misdemeanor charges against two protesters who disrupted an Aug. 9 meeting of the City Council.

Ricci Sergienko, 31, was charged with committing battery on a police officer, attempting to rescue a prisoner and four counts of resisting arrest or delaying or obstructing a police officer, according to the city attorney’s office.

A 46-year-old audience member was charged with trespassing, vandalism, disturbing a public meeting and five counts of resisting arrest or delaying or obstructing a police officer, Feuer’s office said. An attorney with the National Lawyers Guild of Los Angeles identified that defendant as Ms. Italy.

Feuer, in a statement on the case, said the right to peaceful protest is a “long-cherished American freedom.”

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