Leftist privilege. If Colinford Mattis had been wearing a MAGA hat, he might never have seen the light of day again.
“Ivy League Lawyer Who Firebombed Cop Car Will Spend a Year and a Day in Prison,” by Josh Christenson, Washington Free Beacon, January 26, 2023:
An Ivy League-educated lawyer who firebombed a cop car during the 2020 George Floyd riots was sentenced on Thursday to just a year and a day in prison, concluding a pair of cases marked by surprising leniency from the Biden Justice Department.
Colinford Mattis’s sentence was the second of its kind delivered by U.S. District Judge Brian Cogan of the Eastern District of New York after Urooj Rahman, a public interest lawyer who joined Mattis in the firebombing, was sentenced in November to 15 months. In a pre-sentencing memo, prosecutors said they viewed “Mattis’s conduct here as equally culpable to Rahman’s conduct” and recommended a sentence of 18 to 24 months—well beneath the initial guideline of 10 years. Mattis’s attorney, Sabrina Shroff, declined to comment.
Mattis and Rahman leveraged their prestigious degrees, left-wing legal advocacy, and personal connections—including with one former Obama administration official who posted Rahman’s $250,000 bail—to curry favor with the Justice Department. Liberal media outlets like NPR and New York magazine produced fawning coverage of the two after their arrest.
Trump administration prosecutors had sought a 10-year sentence with a domestic terrorism enhancement for the pair, which was dropped after President Joe Biden and Attorney General Merrick Garland took office. Mattis and Rahman in June scored a sweetheart deal with Department of Justice prosecutors, pleading guilty to lesser arson and explosives charges that warranted a mere five-year sentence. New York State announced before Rahman’s sentencing that both she and Mattis had been disbarred.
James Trusty, a former federal prosecutor, told the Washington Free Beacon in November that the DOJ’s treatment of the two was “extraordinarily unusual.” Both Mattis’s and Rahman’s attorneys requested sentence commutations before they appeared in court, pushing for each to be released on time served….
On May 29, 2020, hours after Minneapolis’s Third Precinct was set ablaze by rioters, Mattis and Rahman began sharing plans to build Molotov cocktails and firebomb NYPD targets.
“Bring it to their neck,” Mattis, a graduate of Princeton and New York University’s law school, texted on the night of protests in New York City. “Molotovs rollin’,” Rahman, a Fordham law school graduate, responded.
The two also “encouraged others to engage in violence” and “mocked reportedly injured police officers,” according to prosecutors….
tgusa says
If you are called to serve on a jury in these leftist areas just show up and tell the court that it has no standing. Tell them to take their ****show somewhere else. I refuse to participate in a discriminatory system and so should others. Enough is enough.
somehistory says
They will “reap as they have sown.” the flimsy excuse for a court/justice system won’t bring it down on their heads, but the Law of Truth will: They “will reap as they sowed.” No escape from that.
Jim J Fox says
Muslims in France celebrate New Year by burning hundreds of cars, are any even arrested? Oh, of course, they’re protesting peacefully against islamophobia!
gravenimage says
Insanely, Jim I read an article where burning cars at New Year was described as a “French custom”.
Deodata says
It is now due to the number of Migrants, just like most capital cities in Europe there are masses of these barbarians.
gravenimage says
Yes–these are all Muslims burning cars in France.
gravenimage says
NYC: Leftist lawyer who firebombed police car during George Floyd riots gets just 12 months in prison
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Just appalling.
David M says
I assume she will never be a lawyer again anyway, one good thing.
gravenimage says
Not sure what Colinford Mattis’ future career looks like in this mad environment. He *was* suspended from his law firm Pryor Cashman, though.
By the way, Mattis is a guy, not a woman. The woman involved was another attorney, Muslim Urooj Rahman.
wpm says
I am sure the will both get jobs teaching in NYU or CUNY or some other NY based college when they get out. They will get lots of money in book deals, and or speaking engagements ,maybe they will land jobs working in Soros branch office in NYC for open society organization that he runs there.
gravenimage says
Sadly likely.
Walter Sieruk says
Some things need to be known, if for nothing else but for the sake a balanced perspective.
Which is that George Floyd was a vicious hardened criminal therefore it’s very wrong to make some kind of a “hero” out of hooligan was such criminal that he not was not only on drugs but was also involved in drug trafficking.
Mr. Floyd was so totally despicable that he even entered a pregnant woman’s home under a false premise of deception to let his lawless ruffians lot her home , all the while he threateningly pointed a gun to that pregnant woman’s stomached ‘You better cooperate.”
The list of crimes that Floyd was guilty of can to go on. It’s absurd as well as wrong to make a “hero” out of heinously wicked thug. As the Bible reads “Woe to those who call evil good…” Isaiah 5:20. [N.K.J.V.]
Walter Sieruk says
The Police officer, Alexander Kueng, who was sentenced to prison by the politically correct court of “law” for the death of that hoodlum George Floyd completely refused to take into consideration everything that really mattered.
The PC court didn’t take to account that Mr. Floyd was both a drug trafficking and drug using hooligan and that one of the reason his died that night was not only that the officer used force on him, which is the only language that thugs and gangsters are able to understand because that will not respond to reason. Floyd died because of his drug abuse about with the force that officer used on him.
If Floyd hadn’t resisted the officer force then would not have been needed to control him..
In the light of Bible it’s wrong to resist of police officers or their orders. Romans 13:2.
Furthermore as this CP unjust prison sentence upon Mr Kueng is a reminder for Christians to pray for him since he was wrongly sentenced and that Bible also instructs in Hebrews 13 :3. “Remember the prisoners as if chained with them – Those who are mistreated – since you yourselves are in the body also.” [N.K.J.V.]
OLD GUY says
It would have been racist to have given a LAWYER a stiffer sentence, they are a privileged protected part of society. She will probably be able to get her law license back after her 12 month in jail.
David M says
I just looked it up, & it’s actually a possibility she could.
“Lawyers can still practice in most states if they have a criminal record; however, it greatly depends on the facts and the jurisdiction in which they reside. In addition, all lawyers must be evaluated and pass an examination of character and moral fitness before becoming licensed to practice law.”
gravenimage says
Colinford Mattis is African American; Urooj Rahman is Muslim, probably from the Middle East.