By: Jared Evan
Two attorneys were taken back into custody Friday for charges in connection with a Molotov cocktail attack on a police patrol car during protests in Brooklyn last weekend in the wake of George Floyd’s death. One of the alleged attackers was interviewed by an online outlet ,before her attack, lambasting the mayor for using the police to keep the violent riots peaceful.
“This has got to stop. And the only way they hear, the only way they hear us is through violence, through the means that they use”, suspect and lawyer Urooj Rahman said in the newly unearthed interview.
The first several nights of the George Floyd protests were extremely violent, particularly in Brooklyn. Hours of footage of the crowd gathered from social media display the protestors, spitting at cops, cursing them out, and some rioters physically confronting them. By all accounts it was perfectly reasonable for NYPD to have a presence, since the initial protests triggered violence, looting and several murders all across the nation.
The radicalized Brooklyn born lawyer Urooj Rahman however did not see a need for police at these violent riots. Urooj Rahman, 31, was one of the two suspects in the brazen Molotov cocktail attack on a police car. In most circumstances this would be considered a serious act of terrorism, and the suspect held without chance of bail for up to 14 days, if arrested under the Terrorism Act, however the suspects had been out on $25,000 bail with electronic monitoring, CNN pointed out.
On Saturday night, Brooklyn federal prosecutors charged Rahman and fellow lawyer Colinford Mattis, with causing damage by fire and explosives to a New York Police Department car after they allegedly drove a tan minivan to the Fort Greene neighborhood and Rahman threw a makeshift explosive into the broken window of an empty patrol car, according to court filings, according to CNN.
These are fairly lenient charges, considering if the police car had officers in it, there could have been dead cops. It would not be beyond reason for prosecutors to throw the full extent of the law at these two radicalized lawyers, who’s backgrounds are of storybook like success.
The NY Post reported on the newly uncovered interview from online entity Loud Labs.
“I think this protest is a long time coming,” lawyer Urooj Rahman said in a videotaped interview filmed near the Barclays Center in Brooklyn at around 12:15 a.m. May 30.
“This s–t won’t ever stop unless we f–kin’ take it all down. And that’s why the anger is being expressed tonight in this way,” she said.
The video surfaced Friday, as Rahman and co-defendant Colinford Mattis were taken back into custody by US marshals.
The NY Post continued: During the four-minute interview, Rahman claimed to be unaware that cops had been hurt by protesters during violent clashes sparked by the police killing of George Floyd — but said de Blasio should have held back the NYPD “the way that the mayor in Minneapolis did.”
The Minneapolis model was obviously a failure as millions of dollars of damage was done to the city, with buildings and a police station in flames.
“I think the mayor should have done that, because if he really cared about his police officers, he should have realized that it’s not worth them getting hurt,” she said.
Rahman was then caught on surveillance video just before 1 a.m. that day lighting a Molotov cocktail and tossing it into an empty police vehicle near the 88th Precinct, according to court papers, the Post reported.
