By: Rusty Brooks
Three people — including one-woman authorities say has an extensive criminal history, including another attack on police, have been arrested on federal charges after a pair of NYPD vehicles were firebombed during this weekend’s protests, NBC reported.
In one attack 2 lawyers, a Princeton graduate and a human rights lawyer were both charged in an attack that left a police car dashboard charred, according to the NY Times. No one was injured.
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.
Mr. Mattis and Ms. Rahman were charged with causing damage to a police vehicle by fire and explosives, according to a criminal complaint filed by federal prosecutors in Brooklyn, the NY Times reported. They both appeared on Monday before a federal magistrate in United States District Court in Brooklyn.
The FBI says that in the incident involving Rahman and Mattis, Rahman lit a Molotov cocktail into a previously damaged NYPD vehicle which then set fire to the vehicle. The pair tried to leave the scene, but were caught and arrested by NYPD officers, according to authorities, NBC reported.
In another incident, which was actually reported early on Saturday, before the Mattis/Rahman incident, Samantha Shader, 27, of Catskill, New York, was accused of chucking a Molotov cocktail at an NYPD vehicle that was occupied by four police officers. When she was being cuffed, federal prosecutors say that she actually bit one of the officer’s leg. Initially reports indicated she was going to be charged with attempted murder, this does not seem to be the case. There were initial reports of Shader’s sister being involved as well. She appears to not be facing any charges as of press.
The deranged social justice warrior Samantha Shader allegedly threw a Molotov cocktail at 1:12 a.m. in Brooklyn Saturday morning. The FBI says it shattered two windows of the NYPD vehicle and damaged the vehicle while officers were inside. The complaint alleges that the FBI was able to get video of the incident from a witness.
As a result of the very intense protests over the weekend, Mayor de Blasio declared a curfew in NYC; the first one since the 1940’s. According to a report on Tuesday morning , New York City is bracing for its second night of curfew, one that will be imposed three hours earlier than Monday’s after “packs of youth” took to the streets overnight and looted stores across Manhattan and the Bronx.
