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An Indiana man has been sentenced to ten years in prison for participating in a riot in Portland, Oregon in 2020 during which he threw Molotov cocktails at police officers. Malik Muhammed pleaded guilty this week to 14 felony charges related to the Portland rioting and will have to pay $200,000 in restitution along with serving 10 years in prison, according to a statement from Multnomah County District Attorney Mike Schmidt. “On September 5, 2020, Muhammed constructed multiple Molotov cocktails. He then brought those explosive devices, along with baseball bats, to a planned protest event that evening at the East...

A 23-year-old Minnesota man has been sentenced to four years in prison. He’s also been ordered to pay $12 million in restitution for his role in setting a police precinct ablaze during last year’s George Floyd riots. Last May, Dylan Shakespeare Robinson trampled over a fence at the precinct. Then he lit a Molotov cocktail that was thrown by someone else into Minneapolis’s third precinct. He was just one of the people who rioted and committed arson during last year’s Black Lives Matter riots.