A New York lawyer who torched a police car during the 2020 riots with a Molotov cocktail was sentenced Nov. 18 to 15 months in prison.
Urooj Rahman, the lawyer, saw her last-minute plea to the judge for no jail time rejected.
“I’m so incredibly sorry for my reckless and wrong actions,” Rahman said in federal court in Brooklyn. “I don’t think there’s enough words to express my sorrow and regret. … I completely lost my way in the emotion of the night.”
U.S. District Judge Brian Cogan, a George W. Bush appointee, said that Rahman is “a remarkable person who did a terrible thing on one night” but criticized the lawyer for thinking she could get away with violence….