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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She’s smirking. She should have gotten 45 years. When she gets out, her law license may be reinstated, and even without a law license she can teach at Columbia.
Perfect.
My prayer for them is that they will follow Chuck Colson’s path and turn themselves over to Jesus.
Rahman’s family arrived from Pakistan in 1993
Mattis’s parents arrived from Jamaica in the late 1970s
The multiple bottles found in Mattis’s van “to equip others with such explosives and to encourage them to attack law enforcement,” as Ian Richardson, the assistant US attorney, said in court. “They carefully and rationally planned and executed this attack and played bomb-maker for others to do the same.”
She needs to go back to Pakistan and clean up that country rather than changing our to fit her Muslim ideas.
Both have overinflated opinions of themselves.....they are of Obamas kind to change our country.
45 Years...
To a year.
Ssssh
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Nice Tye
Photo
You joking 🙃
Obiden Boy too.
Yep...had to post that photo!
Take it to the bank.
“So in 15 months he’ll be a CNN contributing political ‘analyst’.”
CNN viewers should number about 50 thousand by then.
You’re predicting a big increase? /s
Short sentences give them more time to clean public toilets.
—”I’m old enough to remember when the “violent insurrectionists” firebombed the US Capitol.”
So old you must have forgotten?
Alexander Cockburn, Robert Ross and a bunch of protesters or something, set fire to the north and south wings of the US Capitol building.
Lots of damage.
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.
The rat still gnawing at law and order.
3. The thing on the right is a communist psychopath and the other thing probably is one too. They will never repent or give up “the struggle” until some policeman puts 6 in their body when they attempt a bombing or shooting.
If you’ve ever met these people, you know what I mean.
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