You don’t blame vodka and 911.
What she should have done is say that she saw black people firebombing cars and not getting punished, so she thought it was allowed.
A lawyer who torched an NYPD patrol car during the George Floyd riots is begging for a reduced sentence — whining that she was drunk and dealing with “unprocessed trauma” at the time, according to court documents.
Urooj Rahman, 33, who pleaded guilty last year to tossing a Molotov cocktail at an empty police van in Brooklyn and is facing 18 months to two years behind bars, is pushing to have her sentence commuted to time served.
Havent seen a filing this amazing in a while.
Urooj Rahman is attorney who blew up police car w Molotov cocktail during Summer of Riots 2020. She's been convicted and is awaiting sentencing…
She argues that she shouldnt have to go to jail at all🤣 pic.twitter.com/EzNPwh8BLV
— ArchIndie (@E44Teddy) September 30, 2022
She spent 28 days in a Brooklyn federal jail before posting $250,000 bail.
Her lawyers contended in a Sept. 9 court filing that Rahman had been downing vodka “on an empty stomach” and “became quite drunk” before she and fellow lawyer Colinford Mattis, 34, set the vehicle ablaze near the 88th Precinct stationhouse in Fort Greene on May 30, 2020.
“Tossing the Molotov cocktail was a way of expressing anger at those police officers around the country for whom black lives did not matter,” her lawyers wrote to Brooklyn Federal Court Judge Brian M. Cogan. “It was an act of protest intended to avoid exposing others to harm.”
Rahman’s lawyer rattled off a laundry list of excuses explaining her decision to chuck the explosive device. These included “early trauma” from being a Muslim in post-9/11 America; “abusive partnership relationships”; and “the injustices that she has witnessed here and abroad,” including assisting refugees in Istanbul and Athens and helping low-income tenants in New York avoid eviction.
But Rahman sounded sober in a video interview to Loudlabs News NYC about 45 minutes before the car was torched, defending the protesters and saying that “people are angry because the police are never held accountable.”
“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,” she said without slurring her words.
Imagine that these Islamic people come to our country and just start blowing things up, then whine about two years in jail.
If I went to a foreign country and firebombed a police car and the lawyers were like “they wanna give you two years,” I would be like “oh shit, nice.”
What do they think?
Why is this bitch in my country in the first place?
I live here.
What right do these people have to just show up and start agitating our blacks?
I think this bitch shouldn’t do any jail time – she should be sent home, and turned over to the Taliban.