New York lawyer Urooj Rahman gets only 15 months in prison for firebombing a police car during the George Floyd riots

[Drop Dead Fred]

I think she should have gotten 20 years. This ridiculously short sentence sends a very bad message.

Lawyer gets 15 months behind bars for firebombing police car

Lawyer gets 15 months behind bars for firebombing police car

By Tom Hays

November 18, 2022

NEW YORK (AP) — A New York City attorney was sentenced to 15 months behind bars on Friday for firebombing an empty New York City police vehicle with another lawyer during protests over the murder of George Floyd.

Before hearing her sentence, Urooj Rahman asked a judge to spare her prison time and give her a “second chance” to redeem herself for what she called a momentary lapse of judgement.

“I’m so incredibly sorry for my reckless and wrong actions,” a tearful Rahman said in federal court in Brooklyn. “I don’t think there’s enough words to express my sorrow and regret. … I completely lost my way in the emotion of the night.”

U.S. District Judge Brian Cogan praised her for choosing a career in public interest law to fight against social injustices.

“You’re a remarkable person who did a terrible thing on one night,” Cogan said.

However, Cogan also scolded her for thinking she could get away with violent protest.

“It displays an amazing amount of arrogance. … It’s just a very arrogant way to think,” he said.

Federal prosecutors had recommended a sentence of 18 to 24 months as part of a plea deal.

Rahman and Colinford Mattis were arrested amid clashes between protesters and police on May 30, 2020, during an eruption of demonstrations following Floyd’s killing by a police officer in Minnesota.

Surveillance cameras recorded Rahman hurling an incendiary device into a parked police vehicle, setting fire to its console. No one was injured in the attack, but the vehicle was severely damaged.

Officers arrested the lawyers a short time later and said they found a lighter, a Bud Light beer bottle filled with toilet paper and a gasoline tank in the back of a minivan driven by Mattis, a corporate attorney. Prosecutors alleged the lawyers planned to distribute and throw other Molotov cocktails.

While other lawyers condemned their conduct, some objected to the severity of the charges, arguing that the case was improperly handled as if it were an act of domestic terrorism. When the U.S. attorney in Brooklyn asked that the lawyers be detained without bail, 56 former federal prosecutors sent a legal brief to the court criticizing the government’s handling of the case.

Rahman and Mattis have been disbarred. Mattis is scheduled for sentencing next month.

 

[Muhammed]

IMO, There should not have been any "plea deal".

The evidence is not just merely "beyond a reasonable doubt", it's beyond any imaginable doubt whatsoever.

Rahman and her partner terrorist should have been executed on the scene of the crime. Or taken to Gitmo and be tortured until they gave up some info. Then killed.

 

[TroglocratsRdumb]

the racist democrat party and their yellow press handmaidens incited left wing extremist violence
over thirty people were killed
dems have no shame because they don't have a conscience

 

[progressive hunter]

 

[Ray From Cleveland]

She'll probably be out in 10 months on good behavior, and the media will post the story on page D9.

 

[B. Kidd]

Justice is blind; most notably when the Dimm's control it!!

 

[Muhammed]

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the racist democrat party and their yellow press handmaidens incited left wing extremist violence
over thirty people were killed
dems have no shame because they don't have a conscience

(5)the term “domestic terrorism” means activities that—
(A)
involve acts dangerous to human life that are a violation of the criminal laws of the United States or of any State;
(B)appear to be intended—
(i)
to intimidate or coerce a civilian population;
(ii)
to influence the policy of a government by intimidation or coercion; or
(iii)
to affect the conduct of a government by mass destruction, assassination, or kidnapping

Obviously, throwing a firebomb at an emergency vehicle is against the law. It was also obviously done "to influence the policy of a government by intimidation or coercion".

 

[Rigby5]

I think she should have gotten 20 years. This ridiculously short sentence sends a very bad message.

Lawyer gets 15 months behind bars for firebombing police car

Lawyer gets 15 months behind bars for firebombing police car

By Tom Hays

November 18, 2022

NEW YORK (AP) — A New York City attorney was sentenced to 15 months behind bars on Friday for firebombing an empty New York City police vehicle with another lawyer during protests over the murder of George Floyd.

Before hearing her sentence, Urooj Rahman asked a judge to spare her prison time and give her a “second chance” to redeem herself for what she called a momentary lapse of judgement.

“I’m so incredibly sorry for my reckless and wrong actions,” a tearful Rahman said in federal court in Brooklyn. “I don’t think there’s enough words to express my sorrow and regret. … I completely lost my way in the emotion of the night.”

U.S. District Judge Brian Cogan praised her for choosing a career in public interest law to fight against social injustices.

“You’re a remarkable person who did a terrible thing on one night,” Cogan said.

However, Cogan also scolded her for thinking she could get away with violent protest.

“It displays an amazing amount of arrogance. … It’s just a very arrogant way to think,” he said.

Federal prosecutors had recommended a sentence of 18 to 24 months as part of a plea deal.

Rahman and Colinford Mattis were arrested amid clashes between protesters and police on May 30, 2020, during an eruption of demonstrations following Floyd’s killing by a police officer in Minnesota.

Surveillance cameras recorded Rahman hurling an incendiary device into a parked police vehicle, setting fire to its console. No one was injured in the attack, but the vehicle was severely damaged.

Officers arrested the lawyers a short time later and said they found a lighter, a Bud Light beer bottle filled with toilet paper and a gasoline tank in the back of a minivan driven by Mattis, a corporate attorney. Prosecutors alleged the lawyers planned to distribute and throw other Molotov cocktails.

While other lawyers condemned their conduct, some objected to the severity of the charges, arguing that the case was improperly handled as if it were an act of domestic terrorism. When the U.S. attorney in Brooklyn asked that the lawyers be detained without bail, 56 former federal prosecutors sent a legal brief to the court criticizing the government’s handling of the case.

Rahman and Mattis have been disbarred. Mattis is scheduled for sentencing next month.

Wrong.
It is just minor property damage since the car was empty.
And the murder of George Floyd deserved a much greater response.
Police have to understand they are SUBORDINATES hired by us, and not our ruling class.
The crimes committed continually even now by the police, like the illegal War on Drugs, amounts to treason.

 

[Rigby5]

IMO, There should not have been any "plea deal".

The evidence is not just merely "beyond a reasonable doubt", it's beyond any imaginable doubt whatsoever.

Rahman and her partner terrorist should have been executed on the scene of the crime. Or taken to Gitmo and be tortured until they gave up some info. Then killed.

Wrong.
She is a hero.
The police not only were wrong, but evil, and have always been used to enforce slavery, union busting, illegal war, the draft, etc.

 

[Sunni Man]

She is a leftist Democrat.
I'm surprised she didn't get just 6 months probation and a hero award.

 

[Ray From Cleveland]

Wrong.
It is just minor property damage since the car was empty.
And the murder of George Floyd deserved a much greater response.
Police have to understand they are SUBORDINATES hired by us, and not our ruling class.
The crimes committed continually even now by the police, like the illegal War on Drugs, amounts to treason.

You shouldn't use big words like "treason" if you don't have a clue what they mean. Police enforce the law, that's their job. They don't make the law, judge the law, only enforce laws.

 

[BackAgain]

Was it a mostly peaceful Molotov firebomb?

 

[excalibur]

 

[excalibur]

BTW the two perps were granted bail unlike dozens or more of January 6 detainees. This is what the magistrate judge said when he granted them bail:

“One night of behavior is not a basis on which to reject somebody’s ability to make rational decisions,” U.S. Magistrate Judge Steven Gold said.​

2 Brooklyn attorneys granted bail in NYPD firebombing case

NEW YORK (AP) — Two attorneys charged with firebombing a police vehicle amid the unrest convulsing New York City were granted bail Monday over the objections of federal prosecutors who warned the...

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Just more unequal justice.

 

[Wild Bill Kelsoe]

Wrong.
It is just minor property damage since the car was empty.
And the murder of George Floyd deserved a much greater response.
Police have to understand they are SUBORDINATES hired by us, and not our ruling class.
The crimes committed continually even now by the police, like the illegal War on Drugs, amounts to treason.

But, protestors in DC should get 3 years for trespassing?...lol

 

[Wild Bill Kelsoe]

But, a J6 protestor gets 3 years for stealing a coat rack...lol

Ohio J6 man gets three years after stealing a coat rack

The latest in our ongoing series covering January 6 rioters who have been arrested, convicted and sentenced deals with Dustin Thompson of Ohio, who faced the music yesterday. Like many others that we&...

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[Jarlaxle]

She should have gotten life.

 

[jbrownson0831]

I think she should have gotten 20 years. This ridiculously short sentence sends a very bad message.

Lawyer gets 15 months behind bars for firebombing police car

Lawyer gets 15 months behind bars for firebombing police car

By Tom Hays

November 18, 2022

NEW YORK (AP) — A New York City attorney was sentenced to 15 months behind bars on Friday for firebombing an empty New York City police vehicle with another lawyer during protests over the murder of George Floyd.

Before hearing her sentence, Urooj Rahman asked a judge to spare her prison time and give her a “second chance” to redeem herself for what she called a momentary lapse of judgement.

“I’m so incredibly sorry for my reckless and wrong actions,” a tearful Rahman said in federal court in Brooklyn. “I don’t think there’s enough words to express my sorrow and regret. … I completely lost my way in the emotion of the night.”

U.S. District Judge Brian Cogan praised her for choosing a career in public interest law to fight against social injustices.

“You’re a remarkable person who did a terrible thing on one night,” Cogan said.

However, Cogan also scolded her for thinking she could get away with violent protest.

“It displays an amazing amount of arrogance. … It’s just a very arrogant way to think,” he said.

Federal prosecutors had recommended a sentence of 18 to 24 months as part of a plea deal.

Rahman and Colinford Mattis were arrested amid clashes between protesters and police on May 30, 2020, during an eruption of demonstrations following Floyd’s killing by a police officer in Minnesota.

Surveillance cameras recorded Rahman hurling an incendiary device into a parked police vehicle, setting fire to its console. No one was injured in the attack, but the vehicle was severely damaged.

Officers arrested the lawyers a short time later and said they found a lighter, a Bud Light beer bottle filled with toilet paper and a gasoline tank in the back of a minivan driven by Mattis, a corporate attorney. Prosecutors alleged the lawyers planned to distribute and throw other Molotov cocktails.

While other lawyers condemned their conduct, some objected to the severity of the charges, arguing that the case was improperly handled as if it were an act of domestic terrorism. When the U.S. attorney in Brooklyn asked that the lawyers be detained without bail, 56 former federal prosecutors sent a legal brief to the court criticizing the government’s handling of the case.

Rahman and Mattis have been disbarred. Mattis is scheduled for sentencing next month.

Dang, he should have also murdered someone then he would have been off on bail only.

 

[Polishprince]

Shoe Bomber Richard Reid's bomb didn't even go off, and he wasn't an officer of the court or even a US citizen- yet got life in prison.

Ditto with that young black guy, the Panty Bomber who had a bomb in his drawers.

Why should it matter if the bomb only caused property damage, or didn't cause any damage at all- like with the other fellows.

The only difference here is that Ms. Rahman is a Liberal Extremist. If she was a islamonazi, or a Republican or an ultramoderate , she would have , and should have- gone to prison for a long time.

 

[LeftofLeft]

Despicable that this cop-hating, pig fucker only gets 15 months and praise from a liberal judge.