Hong Kong court hands US lawyer 4-month jail sentence for assaulting policeman during citywide unrest in 2019

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An American lawyer working in Hong Kong will spend four months behind bars after being convicted of attacking a police officer during a period when the semi-autonomous territory was gripped by violent anti-Beijing protests.

Samuel Phillip Bickett, a former compliance director at the Bank of America, was sentenced to four months and two weeks on Tuesday by a Hong Kong court. Court magistrate Arthur Lam said Bickett’s behavior posed a “serious threat to public order,” noting the officer whom he attacked suffered multiple injuries. Fourteen days were added to the American’s sentence because the court concluded his actions may have incited other acts of violence.

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