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Accused Molotov Cocktail Hurler Is Ivy League-Educated Lawyer, Community Board Member

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A Ivy League-educated lawyer and member of a Brooklyn community board was among those arrested for hurling a Molotov cocktail at a marked NYPD vehicle amid George Floyd protests, it was revealed Sunday.

Colinford Mattis, 32, was allegedly behind the wheel of a tan minivan as his passenger, fellow attorney Urooj Rahman, allegedly hurled the incendiary at an empty NYPD vehicle outside the 88th Precinct station house in Fort Greene early on Saturday.

Mattis, a graduate of Princeton University and New York University law school, is an associate at corporate Manhattan firm Pryor Cashman.

He was furloughed in April amid the coronavirus crisis, his employer confirmed.

“As we confront critical issues around historic and ongoing racism and inequity in our society, I am saddened to see this young man allegedly involved in the worst kind of reaction to our shared outrage over what had occurred,” managing partner Ron Shechtman said in a statement to The Post.

Brooklyn Community Board 5 in East New York lists Mattis as one of its members, though the board’s president and reps didn’t immediately return calls on Sunday.

Rahman, 31, meanwhile, is also registered as an attorney in New York state, who was admitted to the bar in June 2019 after graduating from Fordham University School of Law. It was not immediately clear on Sunday whether she was affiliated with any law firm.

It’s unclear how she and Mattis know each other.

The Brooklyn residents are federally charged with causing damage by fire and explosives to a police vehicle, during demonstrations over the death of George Floyd.

“No rational human being can ever believe that hurling firebombs at police officers and vehicles is justified,” said Brooklyn US Attorney Richard Donaghue.

Both attorneys are expected to be arraigned on Monday.

Pryor Cashman said that Mattis’ employment status will be reviewed “as we obtain further information this week.”
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Accused Molotov cocktail hurler is Ivy League-educated lawyer, community board member

An Ivy League-educated lawyer and member of a Brooklyn community board was among those arrested for hurling a Molotov cocktail at a marked NYPD vehicle amid George Floyd protests, it was revealed S…
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Urooj needs to be sent back to what shithole (not talking about mama) she came from immediately.

One of the two Brooklyn lawyers accused trying to torch an NYPD cruiser in Brooklyn used a Bud Light bottle stuffed with a rag as a Molotov cocktail, according to a photo obtained Sunday by the Daily News.

Urooj Rahman, 31, was snapped in a picture holding a black and white striped scarf close to her face with one hand and the potentially fiery bottle with another as she prepared to toss it out of the passenger-side window of a van.

Rahman hurled the bottle, which was filled with gasoline, into the cruiser. But the Bud Light Molotov cocktail failed to ignite, law enforcement sources said.

Cops gave chase and stopped Mattis’ van nearby on Willoughby St. They found the makings of another Molotov cocktail in the back seat along with a gasoline container, authorities say.
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Woman identified by sources as Brooklyn lawyer accused of tossing Molotov cocktail at NYPD cruiser used Bud Light bottle for incendiary device: photo

One of the two Brooklyn lawyers accused trying to torch an NYPD cruiser in Brooklyn used a Bud Light bottle stuffed with a rag as a Molotov cocktail, according to a photo obtained Sunday by the Dai…
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Well, at least she's wearing her face mask.

I anticipate they will both be punished by the legal disciplinary board in NY with a suspension, possibly even disbarred. They might have just ruined their entire careers and thrown all that expensive education down the toilet. Winning!
 
Brillig said:
Notice the woman is wearing a keffiyeh (black & white Palestinian headscarf). One needs to accessorize appropriately for every occasion, don't ya know.
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I did notice that. You did a much better job of pointing it out neutrally than I was able to conceive of. ;)

ETA: Because it was 4:15am and all thought was impossible! Not because anything racist! :oops:
 
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The two Brooklyn lawyers accused of throwing a Molotov cocktail into a police car during a protest early Saturday morning are set to be released from federal lockup after a judge approved bond for the pair in court hearings Monday.

Judge Steven Gold approved $250,000 bond for both Brooklyn community board member Colinford Mattis, 32, and his alleged accomplice, 31-year-old Urooj Rahman — despite strenuous objections from federal prosecutors.

Both Mattis and Rahman will be subject to home confinement and their family and friends who have offered to post the bond will be held responsible for paying if the lawyers jump bail, Gold said at the hearings.

An appeal of the decision by federal prosecutors in a separate court hearing Monday evening was shot down by another judge.

The prosecutor who argued he be kept in prison said Mattis “risked everything to drive around in a car with Molotov cocktails attacking police vehicles.”

“That is not the action of a rational person,” he added.

In Rahman’s hearing, the prosecutor said with uprisings happening across the city right now, it’s not the time to release a “bomb thrower” into the community.

“She pursued a career in which she would uphold the law, but everything she’s done as detailed in the complaint is contrary to that,” the prosecutor said.

“She threw away her career in the law when she threw that Molotov cocktail at a New York City police vehicle,” he added.

Defense attorneys for both lawyers stressed their legal backgrounds and education at prestigious universities as evidence neither of them would be a threat to the community if released.
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‘Bomb thrower’ lawyers Colinford Mattis, Urooj Rahman to be released on bond

The two Brooklyn lawyers accused of throwing a Molotov cocktail into a police car during a protest early Saturday morning are set to be released from federal lockup after a judge approved bond for …
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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.

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.
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Molotov cocktail-tossing lawyers tried to pass out firebombs to protesters: feds

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Notice the woman is wearing a keffiyeh (black & white Palestinian headscarf). One needs to accessorize appropriately for every occasion, don't ya know.
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I didn't realize how right I was. When arrested, she was wearing a black t-shirt with a huge red graphic showing a raised fist (symbol of BLM) and the words The Struggle Continues Regardless. She really did intentionally dress for the event.
 
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Defense attorneys for both lawyers stressed their legal backgrounds and education at prestigious universities as evidence neither of them would be a threat to the community if released.
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Really, because that didn't stop the arrogant assholes any now did it? The folly of arguing that because they're lawyers they'll be good when you're trying to get them out of FEDERAL lock up because they couldn't be good is rather amusing though. :facepalm:
 
Was there no one in the cruisers or did they get off easy cuz they're likely well connected and have/had prestigious jobs?

There's another story where a woman threw one at a loaded police van and she is being charged with 4 counts of attempted murder.
 
A pair of activist lawyers pleaded guilty Wednesday to charges they torched an empty New York City police vehicle last year amid the unrest over the police killing of George Floyd.

Urooj Rahman, 32, and Colinford Mattis, 34, could get up to 10 years in prison at sentencing next year on a charge of possessing or making a destructive device. They had faced a mandatory-minimum sentence of 45 years in prison if convicted at trial on seven counts, including six that will be dropped as a result of the plea.

Along with a prison term, both could be disbarred.

Federal prosecutors in Brooklyn had accused Rahman of throwing a bottle containing gasoline into an empty police vehicle, trying to distribute Molotov cocktails to other people and then fleeing in a minivan driven by Mattis. The prosecution has drawn criticism from some members of the legal community who claimed it was a case of overkill driven by the Trump Administration’s heavy-handed approach to protests over police killings of young Black men like Floyd.

In 2020, dozens of former federal prosecutors had urged the court in a written brief to reject the government’s efforts to keep the attorneys behind bars as they awaited trial, calling it “contrary both to the law and to our collective decades of experience.” The two were ultimately released on bond under home confinement.

Throughout, prosecutors insisted the threat was serious. They cited evidence on Wednesday alleging that hours before their arrests, Mattis and Rahman exchanged messages in which Rahman wrote about the Floyd protests across the nation, “I hope they burn everything down … Need to burn all the police stations down... probably all the courts too.”

Prosecutors say Rahman, while at protests in Brooklyn, sent text message updates to Mattis and others, saying “Throwing bottles and tear gas... lit some fires but were put out... fireworks goin and Molotovs rollin.”
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