Bill Cosby conviction is the first big win of the #MeToo movement

With a guilty verdict in Bill Cosby’s sexual assault trial on Thursday, a Pennsylvania jury handed down the first major legal victory of the #MeToo era.

The verdict — convicting the once-revered comedian of three felony counts of aggravated indecent assault — came after Cosby’s first trial ended in a hung jury last June, months before a sexual harassment reckoning swept Hollywood, the media, politics and other industries.

“I’m stunned,” Tarana Burke, the activist who originally coined the phrase “Me too” for survivors of sexual assault, told NBC News after Cosby’s conviction. “I think, like most survivors around the world, I never expected to see anyone with accountability.”

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