Posted on 01/27/2023 12:03:05 PM PST by grundle
Booking photos of Colinford Mattis and Urooj Rahman taken on May 30, 2020.
In a dramatic hearing on Thursday, a federal judge sentenced a corporate attorney who firebombed a police car during the 2020 Black Lives Matter protests to a year in jail, arguing that his prestigious education — boarding school, Princeton, a law degree from New York University — should have rendered him a peacekeeper, not an instigator.
“You’re not one of the oppressed. You’re one of the privileged,” senior Eastern District of New York Judge Brian Cogan told Colinford Mattis, even as he expressed admiration for what the 35-year-old had accomplished in his life.
The sentencing marked the culmination of a two-and-a-half-year legal battle that saw Mattis and his co-defendant, Urooj Rahman, become symbols of the nation’s political tumult and divisions.
To the Heritage Foundation they were “terrorists,” while New York magazine allowed that they could be seen as “civil-rights heroes, even martyrs.” The Daily Mail called them “woke lawyers.” In the pages of the New York Times, they were described by a guest contributor as victims of “deeply ingrained injustices.”
The Justice Department under then-President Donald Trump sought to put them away for at least 45 years. But then Joe Biden became president, and in both cases the Justice Department settled for much less. They ended up pleading guilty last summer to conspiracy to commit arson. Both will lose their law licenses.
“I’ll be spending every day for the rest of my life trying to make this right,” Rahman said at her sentencing. She will spend 15 months in jail. Standing before the same judge three months later, Mattis voiced the same sentiment. “I ruined my life with my conduct that night,” he said on Thursday.
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As a convicted felon that is automatic disbarment. GOOD
Adios, ***holes.
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“I’ll be spending every day for the rest of my life trying to make this right,” Rahman said at her sentencing. She will spend 15 months in jail. Standing before the same judge three months later, Mattis voiced the same sentiment. “I ruined my life with my conduct that night,” he said on Thursday.
Play stupid games, win stupid prizes Cornhole. and that is what you may very well have to look forward to in the slam. You were convicted of a felony act of violence so you will go to a fed max slamer like the one in Colorado.
They are very sorry...they got caught.
But remember—the revolution continues—just gonna have to wait until they get out of the slammer....
The struggle continues.
Now he’s a jailhouse lawyer?
I'm old enough to remember when the "violent insurrectionists" firebombed the US Capitol.
Oh, wait - that never happened...
Just a year?
So all the efforts so many made on their behalf so they could get ahead and now they throw all away in a violent protest.
Talk about emotional immaturity and mindless range!
Sounds like the marketing of John Brown as a hero after he and his gang murdered that black railroad worker at Harpers Ferry.
ZERO impulse control & ZERO ability to think ahead.
15 months, and that is way too lenient of a sentence. She should’ve been sentenced to 100 years in jail with no parole whatsoever.
So in 15 months he’ll be a CNN contributing political ‘analyst’.
It's people like this who hurt the fabric of our nation.
There’s significance to the “year + one day” sentence. Many privileges and qualifications filter out anyone who was sentenced to “more than 1 year of incarceration.”
IIRC it includes firearms licenses, ability to be bonded, eligibility for certain jobs, etc.
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