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brooklynite

(94,591 posts) Mon Jun 1, 2020, 08:54 AM Jun 2020

Two Lawyers Arrested in Molotov Cocktail Attack on Police in Brooklyn

New York Times

Two lawyers were charged with taking part in a Molotov cocktail attack on a police patrol car over the weekend — a human rights lawyer and a Princeton-educated associate at a Manhattan law firm.

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The two lawyers involved in the attack were identified by federal authorities as Urooj Rahman, 31, the human rights lawyer, and Colinford King Mattis, 32, an associate at the midsize law firm of Pryor Cashman LLP, who graduated from Princeton.

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Police video surveillance near the 88th Precinct station house in the Fort Greene neighborhood captured the attack in which they are charged, according to the criminal complaint filed in their case.

The video showed Ms. Rahman climbing out of a tan 2015 Chrysler Town and Country minivan driven by Mr. Mattis and moving toward the patrol car, the complaint said.

As she neared, she lit a fuse hanging out of a Bud Light beer bottle and threw it through an already broken window of the police vehicle, igniting its console. The complaint said she returned to the minivan and the pair fled.

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Two Lawyers Arrested in Molotov Cocktail Attack on Police in Brooklyn (Original Post) brooklynite Jun 2020 OP

maybe they can represent each other in court? samnsara Jun 2020 #1

Wouldn't the bar suspend their license exboyfil Jun 2020 #3

Morons exboyfil Jun 2020 #2

Things are really out of hand when even Princeton-educated lawyers are tossing molotov cocktails sop Jun 2020 #4

I hope they are old when they get released if at all jimfields33 Jun 2020 #8

More people using video camera's are needed to expose all these criminals duforsure Jun 2020 #5

6 months in a federal prison or 30 days community service working a meat packing plant, their choice Baclava Jun 2020 #6

I'm sure the president will call them "thugs" Takket Jun 2020 #7

Weird News forum? safeinOhio Jun 2020 #9

After all that work (4 years of college, 3 years law school, 3 months bar prep), no_hypocrisy Jun 2020 #10

samnsara

(17,622 posts)

1. maybe they can represent each other in court?

Reply to brooklynite (Original post)

Mon Jun 1, 2020, 08:56 AM

Jun 2020

..will probably be their last client.

exboyfil

(17,863 posts)

3. Wouldn't the bar suspend their license

Reply to samnsara (Reply #1)

Mon Jun 1, 2020, 08:58 AM

Jun 2020

They can each go pro se.

exboyfil

(17,863 posts)

2. Morons

Reply to brooklynite (Original post)

Mon Jun 1, 2020, 08:57 AM

Jun 2020

Send them away for a long time.

sop

(10,192 posts)

4. Things are really out of hand when even Princeton-educated lawyers are tossing molotov cocktails

Reply to brooklynite (Original post)

Mon Jun 1, 2020, 09:05 AM

Jun 2020

at police vehicles. Guess that's what happens when cops are above the law.

jimfields33

(15,818 posts)

8. I hope they are old when they get released if at all

Reply to sop (Reply #4)

Mon Jun 1, 2020, 09:36 AM

Jun 2020

This action is as low as you can go. You can kill a lot of people doing this.

duforsure

(11,885 posts)

5. More people using video camera's are needed to expose all these criminals

Reply to brooklynite (Original post)

Mon Jun 1, 2020, 09:09 AM

Jun 2020

But some police are going after people recording these events. Is this to prevent cops from becoming exposed? They should like people documenting , and backing them up , not shooting at them, and falsely arresting them.