Posted on 05/31/2020 4:01:08 PM PDT by Morgana
wo Brooklyn lawyers have been charged for allegedly tossing a Molotov cocktail into a New York Police Department vehicle early Saturday morning during a protest decrying the police killing of George Floyd.
Colinford Mattis, 32, a corporate attorney with Pryor Cashman, and attorney Urooj Rahman, 31, were charged with the attack where they threw the bomb into an empty police cruiser that was parked outside the 88th Precinct station house in Fort Greene, Brooklyn, cops say.
Police say Rahman, a registered attorney in New York, tossed a bottle filled with gasoline through a broken window into the cruiser just before 1am but the Molotov cocktail failed to ignite.
Rahman then jumped into a van that Mattis was driving and together they sped away from the scene according to the New York Daily News.
The bomb attempt was caught on video surveillance cameras outside the precinct located on DeKalb Avenue.
Police chased and stopped the duo’s van on Willoughby Street and found the makings of another Molotov cocktail in the backseat and a gasoline container.
Both Rahman and Mattis were arrested and charged with attempting to damage or destroy law-enforcement vehicles. Neither had been arrested before.
They face a mandatory minimum sentence of five years and a maximum of 20 years in jail.
They face federal charges and will be arraigned Monday.
'No rational human being can ever believe that hurling firebombs at police officers and vehicles is justified,' Brooklyn US Attorney Richard Donaghue said.
Mattis lives in East New York and graduated from Princeton University and New York University law school in 2016, according to his Linkedin page.
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Especially the educated, other than STEM.
“even the educated”
Often not a virtue, look at Media / Journalist often with Ivy league backgrounds. Hornets nest of scumbag leftism.
I’m telling you guys, there are a fair number of affluenza cases among the rioters.
Terrorism and attempted murder, plain and simple. 25 years to life, minimum.
I bet those two aren’t fired.
Im pretty sure it will be disbarment - hard to get around that.
What do you think they’re educated in? These are liberal arts/ hate America first majors.
Nothing will happen to them nor will they be disbarred.
Nothing will happen to them nor will they be disbarred.
Amy Cooper lost her job and reputation for calling 911 on a black guy that threatened her and her dog. These 2 will lose nothing and may even be celebrated.
In Texas it would be attempted capital murder of a peace officer. 30 to life.
Rahman obviously wasn’t using his noodle.
Affirmative action, not educated.
Yes they will.
I was being kind. If caught in the act, they should be shot on sight. Domestic terrorism alone should get the death penalty.
Oh okay... I get it now.
Dude not thinkin’ right...
Accomplished lawyer or not, Princeton graduate or not...
doesn’t matter.
THEY ARE TERRORISTS, WHO HAVE FOUND A HOME IN THE CULTURE OF THE LEFT. PERIOD
“Lawyers engaged in rioting? Throw the book at ‘em and disbar ‘em.”
Likely a couple of those who would never have passed the bar had it not been lowered over the years.
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