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NEW YORK (77WABC) — Lighter sentences we doled out for two people who firebombed an empty NYPD van during Black Lives Matter protests during the 2020 riots.
The NYPD Patrolman’s Benevolent Association President Pat lynch is blasting the decision, asking the judge to impose as stiff a sentence as possible. During a hearing in Brooklyn federal court in October of 2021, 35-year-old Colinford Mattis and 33-year-old Urooj Rahman faced ten years in prison, but now they now face just two years in jail.
In a letter filed Tuesday, their former lawyers had their terrorism charges reduced to conspiracy to commit arson due to a plea deal based on the defendants lack of criminal history.
Prosecutors want the pair to be given between 18 and 24 months behind bars. The sentencing judge has the discretion to impose a sentence of up to five years.
