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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Ivy League Indoctrinated Leftists - bump for later....
i would hope the law license has been revoked
That’s the Easy
Way Out.
Hope they get
Some “Time!”
Don't lie. I watched the video. He never threatened her, all he wanted was for her to obey the law.
She falsely accused him of threatening her. There should be some kind of punishment for that ands since the police are not interested in following up on a charge of making a false report, I consider loss of job to be the next best thing.
When a false report is made to police, or witnesses lie, or the cops use fake evidence, or the DA does or doesn’t disclose exculpatory evidence; all of them should be given the same sentence the wrongful accused would have been given if found guilty up to and including the death penalty.
This will stop most of the BS and wrongful convictions, false arrest and otherwise waste of time and loss of freedom.
Prolly go to work..for the DNC..or the DOJ
All that spendy education and they didn’t learn a thing...
“Don’t lie. I watched the video. He never threatened her, all he wanted was for her to obey the law. She falsely accused him of threatening her. There should be some kind of punishment for that ands since the police are not interested in following up on a charge of making a false report, I consider loss of job to be the next best thing.”
No lie. Here is what the birdwatcher said happened.
ME: “Look, if you’re going to do what you want, I’m going to do what I want, but you’re not going to like it.”
HER: “What’s that?”
ME [to the dog]: “Come here, puppy!”
HER: “He won’t come to you.”
ME: “We’ll see about that.” . . . I pull out the dog treats I carry for just such intransigence. I didn’t even get a chance to toss any treats to the pooch before Karen scrambled to grab the dog.
He says he is going to do something he wants that she’s not going to like. Then he calls the dog to feed it something. If you don’t see that as a threat to somehow feed the dog something bad or to grab it, you are very naive. He purposely makes threats to get people to leash their dogs. How do you not see that?
Was he wearing a mask (and I don’t mean one of those #CCPVirus masks)?
I the Army we used to say “ well they just sh-t in their mess kit”! Bye bye corporate job. I remember the fellow who b-tched out the Chic Fi la girl. He lost his job and could not find another. I think he is still unemployed.
They checked to make sure the van was unoccupied.
We have two more entries into the Dumbest Criminal of 2020 contest.
They will lose their law licenses. Get convicted of a felony, and it comes with an automatic loss of license.
They will be fired by their law firms tomorrow.
Clean and articulate!
Wonder if either of these lawyers are in the NLG.
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