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Updated 4 Jun: Heavy: Samantha Shader: New York Woman Accused of Throwing Molotov Cocktail at NYPD
By Erik Hawkins
According to an FBI affidavit, a woman named Samantha Shader has admitted to throwing the incendiary device at the vehicle, which contained four officers. Another woman, Shader’s sister Darian Shader, 21, is to be charged in Brooklyn Criminal Court with resisting arrest and obstruction of governmental administration...

1. Shader Was Chased By Police & Bit an Officer on the Leg During Her Arrest, Authorities Say...
Federal authorities claim Shader was caught on video lighting the Molotov cocktail while someone else tried to shield her from view. After she threw it, they allege, the same officers in the NYPD vehicle chased her down. The complaint says she bit one officer on the leg during her arrest. Shader eventually admitted “in sum and substance” to throwing the explosive, according to the language in the federal charging document...

Prosecutors also claim that Shader has been arrested 11 times in 11 different states. They allege convictions for possession and assault. Heavy was only able to confirm Shader’s 2018 and 2019 misdemeanor arrests for creating a public disturbance and for interfering with an officer in Waterford, Connecticut, per Connecticut state court records...

That same night, Urooj Rahman and Colinford Mattis were also both arrested and charged with the same federal crime.
Both are lawyers in Brooklyn who authorities allege were protesting nearby where Shader was arrested...
Police identified a minivan Rahman was seen leaving the scene in and later pulled it over, the complaint states.
Mattis was driving the van, and both were arrested. Authorities found the makings of more Molotovs in the minivan, including a bottle filled with paper and apparent gasoline, as well as a lighter, according to the complaint...

Molotovs have allegedly been used in New York City during the George Floyd protests, and last week, two Minneapolis men were arrested and hit with federal charges after police alleged they threw Molotov cocktails into a county courthouse in Apple Valley, Minnesota, the Star Tribune reported.
Garrett Patrick Ziegler, 24, and Fornandous Cortez Henderson, 32, were both charged with arson and possession of an unregistered destructive device, according to the Department of Justice.
The incident occurred during rioting related to Floyd’s death, according to the Star Tribune...
https://heavy.com/news/2020/06/samantha-shader-new-york-woman-accused-of-throwing-molotov-cocktail-at-nypd/

another ***Molotov:

8 Jun: KPTV Fox12 Oregon: PPB: 20 people arrested, 4 vehicles towed during ‘unlawful assembly’ in downtown Sunday night
On Sunday, at around 6 p.m., three organized groups of demonstrators gathered throughout Portland...
At 11:30 p.m., police said full beverage containers, glass bottles, hard boiled eggs, rocks and other projectiles were thrown at officers positioned a block behind the fence.
According to police, the “agitators” throwing the projectiles were using sling shots and other means to propel the rocks and hard boiled eggs.
A Portland Fire & Rescue medic who was working with officers was hit in the stomach with a rock. PF&R said the injury was minor...

At midnight, an unlawful assembly was declared and officers began dispersing the crowd.
Police said an “agitator” threw a ***Molotov cocktail at an officer during the dispersal. There were no injuries related to that incident, and arson investigators are looking into what happened...
https://www.kptv.com/news/ppb-20-people-arrested-4-vehicles-towed-during-unlawful-assembly-in-downtown-sunday-night/article_84be13f6-a97c-11ea-a0a5-438ab2fc5768.html

7 Jun: KPTV Fox12 Oregon: Hundreds of protesters take to Portland streets for 11th night
Portland police began warning protesters not to push, climb or tamper with the fence around the Justice Center just after 10:00 p.m.
According to Portland police, protesters were shaking the fence, pointing lasers at officers and throwing rocks. Some protesters reportedly used bolt cutters on the fence attempting to bring it down...
At one point the Elk Statue in Chapman Square was on fire but “self-extinguished,” police said...
https://www.kptv.com/news/hundreds-of-protesters-take-to-portland-streets-for-11th-night/article_1fc1e310-a927-11ea-85c8-d370cc8ca9b1.html

plus the Pittsburgh Molotov guy - Matthew Michanowicz - in the news today.