Lawyers plead guilty in torching of NYC police vehicle in Brooklyn
A pair of activist lawyers pleaded guilty in Brooklyn Federal Court Wednesday to charges they torched an empty New York City police vehicle last year amid the unrest over the police killing of George Floyd.
Urooj Rahman, 32, and Colinford Mattis, 34, could get up to 10 years in prison at sentencing next year on a charge of possessing or making a destructive device. They had faced a mandatory-minimum sentence of 45 years in prison if convicted at trial on seven counts, including six that will be dropped as a result of the plea.
Messages were left Wednesday with lawyers for Mattis and Rahman. Along with a prison term, both could be disbarred.