New York Daily News

Black Lives gal is acquitted as judge rips cops

- Shayna Jacobs

A BLACK LIVES Matter activist was acquitted Monday by a judge who ripped police testimony about events that were disproved by video.

The images of protester Cristina Winsor at a July 2016 rally were “totally different from what your officers — who on first blush came across quite credibly — what they told me happened,” Manhattan Criminal Court Judge Stephen Antignani told NYPD lawyer Neil Fenton.

The judge said the officers misreprese­nted facts, including that scaffoldin­g blocked the sidewalk at the point where Winsor (photo inset), 40, was accused of being in the street. Winsor’s lawyer argued it obstructed pedestrian traffic.

Officers also testified there were no supervisin­g cops in “white shirts,” when the video showed several white-shirted officers — including one making an arrest.

Antignani found Winsor not guilty of disorderly conduct and walking in a roadway, dismissing the case argued by the NYPD Legal Bureau.

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