While the January 6 protestors rot in jail
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mostly law-abiding bomber Uroof Rahman
In a letter filed Tuesday, prosecutors for the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York said Colinford Mattis [Princeton, NYU Law, corporate lawyer] and Urooj Rahman, both attorneys from Brooklyn, agreed to plead guilty to conspiracy to commit arson. Under the deal, prosecutors agreed to recommend an 18- to 24-month sentence, but a judge could still impose the maximum sentence of five years behind bars.
That’s down from the government’s previous plan to see a 10-year sentence with terrorism enhancement, discussed in an October 2021 Brooklyn federal court hearing during which Mattis and Rahman each previously pleaded guilty to one count of possessing and making a destructive device.
The original indictment included a 40-year mandatory minimum count and Mattis and Rahman risked a punishment of life imprisonment, according to N.Y. Daily News. The duo spent weeks in jail following their initial arrest on May 30, 2020, but have been on home confinement for most of the past two years.
"There is absolutely no justification for lowballing the sentence for an anti-police terrorist attack," Patrick J. Lynch, president of New York City’s Police Benevolent Association, said in a statement.
Under the new agreement, the pair of firebugs agreed to plead guilty to a conspiracy charge, which carries a maximum sentence of five years in prison, according to a letter filed Tuesday in their case.
In the letter filed Tuesday, the feds noted the probation department had determined that the enhancement was unusually punitive given Mattis and Rahman’s lack of prior criminal histories.
“This increase appears to over-represent the maliciousness of the defendants’ intentions in committing the offense, while also negating the defendants’ otherwise law-abiding lives free of prior criminal convictions,” the federal probation department wrote.
The pair were arrested after Rahman tossed a Molotov cocktail at an empty NYPD van outside the 88th Precinct stationhouse in Fort Greene amid citywide uprisings in the wake of the murder of George Floyd in Minnesota.
At their first plea hearing in October, prosecutor Ian Richardson read a series of text messages between the pair, in which Mattis allegedly encouraged Rahman to “go burn down 1PP,” referring to One Police Plaza.
Bring it to their neck,” Mattis said in the text message and shared a Google Maps location of police headquarters with Rahman, Richardson said.
And from some of the original 2020 coverage, this:
The two attorneys busted for throwing a Molotov cocktail through a police car window during protests in Brooklyn early Saturday were trying to pass out the incendiary devices to demonstrators in the crowd, federal authorities said Monday.
Brooklyn community board member Colinford Mattis, 32, and his alleged accomplice, 31-year-old Urooj Rahman, were driving around in a tan minivan near a clash between police and demonstrators at the 88th Precinct stationhouse in Fort Greene, federal prosecutors for the Eastern District of New York said in a detention memo Monday.
A bystander snapped a photo of the pair in the car while they were allegedly trying to pass out the homemade explosive devices, according to the memo.
“Rahman attempted to distribute Molotov cocktails to the witness and others so that those individuals could likewise use the incendiary devices in furtherance of more destruction and violence,” the witness later told authorities.
Not only have these defendants been allowed to stay free at home the past two years, they also, like the 9/11 terrorists and unlike the January 6 prisoners, have the free legal services of some of the heaviest hitters from huge law firms representing them.
Why is this happening? Because terrorists who attack the police and America are the good guys, according to the federal government and its legal profession allies. Which makes the rest of us enemies of the state.
nothing to see here, move along, move along
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