Attorney who helped firebomb NYPD car during BLM protests sentenced to prison
Written by Black Hot Fire Network on January 28, 2023
Colinford Mattis arrives at federal court in Brooklyn on Thursday. (Mary Altaffer/AP)
BROOKLYN — In a dramatic hearing on Thursday, a federal judge sentenced a corporate attorney who firebombed a police car during the 2020 Black Lives Matter protests to a year in jail, arguing that his prestigious education — boarding school, Princeton, a law degree from New York University — should have rendered him a peacekeeper, not an instigator.
“You’re not one of the oppressed. You’re one of the privileged,” senior Eastern District of New York Judge Brian Cogan told Colinford Mattis, even as . . .
