Lawyer gets 15 months behind bars for firebombing police car at protest
Sweetheart deal with the Biden Justice Department, which, in a rare move, intervened to ask the court to go easy on them after the Trump administration had pressed for an aggressive prosecution. A former intelligence analyst who worked in both the State and Defense departments during the Obama administration, Urooj Rahman, was sentenced Wednesday.
At the Brooklyn protest, Rahman approached an empty NYPD vehicle with an already broken window and tossed in a makeshift explosive device, according to court filings.
She also “attempted to distribute Molotov cocktails to several other individuals and to incite them to use the Molotov cocktails in the course of the protests.”
Rahman fled the scene in a van driven by Mattis, court records show. Police stopped the vehicle and found “precursor” items to build explosives, including a lighter, a Bud Light bottle filled with toilet paper and a gasoline tank.
During Wednesday’s sentencing, Assistant US Attorney Ian Richardson shared more evidence against Rahman and Mattis. It included a text message from Mattis on the night of the alleged incident that read, “Go burn down 1 PP (a nickname for the NYPD headquarters)” along with a Google Maps link with directions.
Prosecutors also have a video interview Rahman gave to a “citizen journalist” in which she said, “This has got to stop and the only way they hear us is through violence,” Richardson said.
At the Brooklyn protest, Rahman approached an empty NYPD vehicle with an already broken window and tossed in a makeshift explosive device, according to court filings.
She also “attempted to distribute Molotov cocktails to several other individuals and to incite them to use the Molotov cocktails in the course of the protests.”
Rahman fled the scene in a van driven by Mattis, court records show. Police stopped the vehicle and found “precursor” items to build explosives, including a lighter, a Bud Light bottle filled with toilet paper and a gasoline tank.
During Wednesday’s sentencing, Assistant US Attorney Ian Richardson shared more evidence against Rahman and Mattis. It included a text message from Mattis on the night of the alleged incident that read, “Go burn down 1 PP (a nickname for the NYPD headquarters)” along with a Google Maps link with directions.
Prosecutors also have a video interview Rahman gave to a “citizen journalist” in which she said, “This has got to stop and the only way they hear us is through violence,” Richardson said.
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