Sunday, May 31, 2020

Woman arrested for allegedly throwing Molotov cocktail at NYPD car

Samantha Shader, 27, of Catskill, NY [which is several hours upstate from the city and where the fly fishing rocks] allegedly tossed the makeshift explosive into the marked police vehicle parked at Eastern Parkway and Washington Avenue in Crown Heights section of Brooklyn. The attempted murder occurred at around 1:12 a.m, as a night of destructive protests over the killing of George Floyd was beginning to wind down, federal prosecutors said. [H/T: NY Post]

There were four cops inside the vehicle when the bottle shattered two windows but the gasoline inside the bottle didn't ignite, the feds said in a criminal complaint released early Sunday morning.

Shader is only being charged with damaging a police vehicle rather than the real crime of attempted murder [in my opinion] which the NYPD had called for.

The complaint cites a single charge against Shader: Causing Damage by Fire and Explosives to a Police Vehicle. The video shows the crime and it seems as if she had blatant disregard for the lives inside the vehicle.

Prosecutors obtained a witness video [above] they assert shows Shader hurl the device as a man attempted to shield her from onlookers. But cops pursued her as she tried to flee and she was apprehended.

“In a post-arrest statement, Shader later admitted to police that she had thrown the Molotov cocktail at the NYPD vehicle,” prosecutors said.

Although the NYPD pressed for attempted murder charges against Shader, federal prosecutors took over the case and assumed custody. She will be held pending an initial court appearance on Monday.

The spokesman for the U.S. Attorney's Office in Brooklyn declined to say if Shader will face additional charges. Had the gasoline ignited, she definitely would, but so far is lucky that her incompetence paid off. [She must be a Cuomo voter.]

The feds also announced that two Brooklynites, Colinford Mattis, 32, and Urooj Rahman, 31, were also slapped with the same federal charge after allegedly tossing a Molotov cocktail at a parked, empty NYPD vehicle outside of the 88th Precinct in Fort Greene in a separate attack that came minutes earlier on Friday.

The anarchist idiots were allegedly driving past the precinct in a tan minivan when they stopped to hurl the Molotov cocktails through an already broken window of the vehicle, setting the car on fire, prosecutors said.

As Mattis manned the wheel, Rahman hopped out of the car to toss the device in an attack that was caught by the precinct’s video surveillance cameras and witnessed by law enforcement officials at the scene.

The two then fled in their car, with police catching and apprehending them soon after near Pratt Institute, prosecutors said.

Needless to say, this dynamic duo of duds will probably find themselves buying "Soap on a Rope" in the future so they don't accidentally drop it in the prison's community shower.

Officers later recovered several items used to construct explosive devices, including a lighter, toilet paper, and a liquid suspected to be gasoline near the passenger seat — as well a gasoline tank in the back of their vehicle, prosecutors said.

“These defendants are charged with attacking the New York City Police Department while its police officers are risking their lives to protect the Constitutional rights of protesters and the safety of us all,” United States Attorney Richard Donoghue said.

“No rational human being can ever believe that hurling firebombs at Police Officers and vehicles is justified."

The Eastern District of New York will do everything in its power to protect those who protect us all,” he added, “and we will ensure that criminals who use the camouflage of lawful protest to launch violent attacks against Police Officers face justice.”

FBI Assistant Director William F. Sweeney Jr. also warned that the consequences for attacking law enforcement would be “severe.”

“Behavior like the attacks charged here puts our entire community – protestors and first responders alike – in danger, and we will simply not allow it to go unaddressed,” Sweeney said in a statement. “The consequences for conducting this alleged attack, and any similar activity planned for the future, will be severe.”

If convicted of the charge, each of the anarchists faces up to 20 years behind bars with a mandatory minimum sentence of 5 years.

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