Disability rights activist acquitted after court finds police dispersal order unlawful

An appellate court has acquitted a disability rights activist who pushed and injured a police officer during a demonstration, ruling that the activist acted in lawful self-defense because the police dispersal order was unlawful, according to legal circles Sunday. The activist, affiliated with disability rights group Solidarity Against Disability Discrimination, had been charged with injuring a police officer while resisting their attempt to remove a disabled protester from a roadway during a ral